Nathan Carruth writes:
> permanently and irrevocably destroy all data on your entire disk”.
This is a feature. More so, it's the very point in an encrypted
filesystem. If you haven't planned for this failure scenario then
what are you doing using a device which *by design* can irrevocably
trash it
None of those issues are of the form “a hundred bad bytes will
permanently and irrevocably destroy all data on your entire disk”.
Unless I am mistaken, crypto header corruption is.
On Jan 05 22:22:44, n.carr...@alum.utoronto.ca wrote:
> Given that one of the goals of the OpenBSD project is to pr
On Jan 05 22:22:44, n.carr...@alum.utoronto.ca wrote:
> Given that one of the goals of the OpenBSD project is to produce
> reliable documentation, I would have expected that this kind of potential
> corruption would have been at least mentioned
> somewhere. Surely we don’t expect every user to read
> On 2023-01-05, Nathan Carruth wrote:
>> Thank you for your response.
>>
>> To clarify: I am not asking about backups proper
>> (though I appreciate the suggestions). My only
>> question is how to make a copy of the crypto metadata.
>
>dd the start of the partition, it's stored 16 blocks (8k) i
On 2023-01-05, Nathan Carruth wrote:
> Thank you for your response.
>
> To clarify: I am not asking about backups proper
> (though I appreciate the suggestions). My only
> question is how to make a copy of the crypto metadata.
dd the start of the partition, it's stored 16 blocks (8k) into the par
Thank you for your response (apologies that I just saw this).
I will have a look at the file you mentioned.
I am curious what you mean by this:
“ Backing up, restoring or
otherwise messing with the softraid metadata without using the standard tools
is an advanced subject”
as far as I know there
Thank you for your response.
To clarify: I am not asking about backups proper
(though I appreciate the suggestions). My only
question is how to make a copy of the crypto metadata.
On 2023-01-03, Nathan Carruth wrote:
> I am with you 100% on backups. My real question was, How
> does one backup c
On 2023-01-03, Nathan Carruth wrote:
> I am with you 100% on backups. My real question was, How
> does one backup crypto volume metadata? Given that
> it can be backed up, clearly it should be, but there is no
> information in any of the cited documentation as to where
> the metadata is or how to
Thank you for your response.
Perhaps I should have clarified my use case. I have data which
is potentially legally privileged and which I also cannot afford
to lose. Thus an unencrypted backup is out of the question, and
my first thought was to use full-disk encryption for the backup.
Perhaps hea
On 1/2/23 23:54, Nathan Carruth wrote:
Thank you for the response.
I am with you 100% on backups. My real question was, How
does one backup crypto volume metadata? Given that
it can be backed up, clearly it should be, but there is no
information in any of the cited documentation as to where
the
Thank you for the response.
I am with you 100% on backups. My real question was, How
does one backup crypto volume metadata? Given that
it can be backed up, clearly it should be, but there is no
information in any of the cited documentation as to where
the metadata is or how to back it up.
Thanks
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