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[Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David-

I'm not familiar with file-roller.

Out of curiosity, can you try tarring your home dir up, and copying that
to your NFS partition?

tar zcvf backup.tar.gz <your encrypted dir>

Let's see if that basic test works, before getting too deep.

:-Dustin

** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: ecryptfs-utils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Cannot manually copy or backup encrypted home
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435472
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ecryptfs-utils

Using a LiveCD, attempting to backup my encrypted /home (ecryptfs protected but not mounted) onto an external drive (NTFS Format) I am unable to either copy the files directly or create an archive using file-roller.

I have attached the errors that both programs give. I think this could be solved if we can find a way to have ecryptfs save the encrypted data one image file (with an 8.3 char name) which is easy to backup and manipulate.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 23 19:38:54 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha i386 (20090922)
Package: ecryptfs-utils 81-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
SourcePackage: ecryptfs-utils
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686