Encrypted backup using BackupPC, LVM and cryptsetup

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I do offsite backups using BackupPC. The amount of data increases constantly so I need to add occasionally hard disks. Additionally I want the data to be encrypted, at least after powering off the system that is running the BackupPC application. So I decided to use logical volume management (LVM) and block device encryption (cryptsetup). The following steps were needed (on Ubuntu Feisty):

Crypsetup on Michael’s Domain

Encrypted backup using BackupPC, LVM and cryptsetup