Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote: > > On Friday, 18 October 2002, at 09:24:03 +0200, > Jon Bendtsen wrote: > > > José Luis Domingo López wrote: > > > I haven't tried, but wouldn't it be possible to just take a snapshots > > > from a LV containing an encrypted filesystem, and then loop-mount it > > > (assuming encrypted via the loop device), give the password, and then > > > backup ? > > > Well, I finally got to work, and made some test, as promised... And it > seems to work !. A list of commands used (and explanations) follows: oops, i knew i forgot something. I made loop-aes work as well. Sorry. I even talked with Jari, and he said the problem was that ppdd used the first 1k of the block device, which AES (and other loop-aes ciphers) didnt. [cut] > As said in my first post to this thread, the encryption layer is > provided by loop-aes (loop-aes.sourceforge.net), which is easy to setup > and is quite well documented (except for one little but annoying detail: > instead of "AES", the algorithm is called "rijndael", otherwise "loop" > complains loudly about an "unknown algorithm type"). hmm ?? rijndael ? I've used it just fine with losetup -e AES256 JonB _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
