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[Jon Thysell <thysell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dustin,

>From with my logged in session I can run

tar zcvf backup.tar.gz /home/.ecryptfs

and it seems to work fine, tarring up all the encrypted folders/files.

When I can get a chance I'll see if there's any problem when trying the
same thing from a live-cd with nothing mounted.

My guess this is a limitation of file-roller (the default archive
manager in gnome).

/jon

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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