[52266] in Cypherpunks
Re: Backup of Encrypted Partition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sun Mar 17 21:35:43 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 03:30:48 +0100
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: anon-remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl (Anonymous)
Mark C. Henderson (mch@squirrel.com) wrote:
: On Mar 17, 18:38, Sanwar Ali wrote:
: } Subject: Backup of Encrypted Partition
: } Hi
: }
: } Apologies if this is too much of a beginner's Q.
: }
: } Does anyone know how to backup a "SecureDrive" partition onto tape
: } quickly and easily.
: }
: } HPACK is really slow.
: }
: } PKZIP and then PGP is slow.
: }
: } RAWDISK, seems to be quite complex (perhaps I am just stupid!), and I
: } am terrified of making some sort of terrible mistake.
: }
: } I have about 100MB in the partition. I have a pretty out of date
: } computer which is a 386 33MHz running Windows.
:
:
: Ease of backup is one of the strengths of CFS which is a cryptographic
: filesystem for various flavours of UNIX and Linux.
If you have Linux installed, you can backup your dos securedrive partition
by doing
cat /dev/hda2 >/dev/ftape
^^^^
(or whatever your securedrive partition is)
No decrypting necessary. If the partition is only 100MB then it ought to
fit on a standard qic-80 tape.
