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Elnee

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Registered: 2018-04-16

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Boot from backup-ed root partition stored on encrypted external HDD

Hello everyone. I recently bought external HDD and I want to backup all my "/" root partition data. But also I want to encrypt everything on external HDD and be able to boot from it. Is it even possible?

Also suggest me best for your opinion tool for encrypt whole external HDD.
Is rsync utility good enough for incremental backups?

Thanks for your answers!

Last edited by Elnee (2018-06-25 14:18:36)

jasonwryan

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Re: Boot from backup-ed root partition stored on encrypted external HDD

Read this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt it answers both your questions.

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