Backing up an encrypted partition
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue Jan 17 04:10:00 PST 2006
vittorio <vdemart1 at tin.it> writes:
> From time to time I backup up my ad0s3a and ad0s3d partitions by means of dump
> issuing a 'dump -a0f fileA /dev/ad0s3a' etc.
>
> Having just set up a gdbe encrypted partition /dev/ads0s3e which I mount with
>
> gbde attach /dev/ad0s3e -l /etc/gbde/ad0s3e
> mount /dev/ad0s3e.bde /mydir/encrypt
>
> I wonder WHAT should I now dump when backing up:
>
> dump -a0f fileE /dev/ad0s3e
>
> OR
>
> dump -a0f fileE /dev/ad0s3e.bde
>
> ?
I would expect it to be the latter.
Take the easy approach; try it and see.
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list