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Subject: Re: How do you backup an encrypted geli partition?
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:02:53 -0700
"Neil Gruending" <neil@gruending.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> If I created an encrypted partition using geli, is it possible back it
> up to another machine and still keep in encrypted? I want to use geli
> for my subversion repository and then back it up to an offsite host
> (hopefully using something like rsync).

Short of taking a disk image, no. But once it's mounted it's no
different from any other partition, so there's nothing to stop you
rsynching to another encrypted partition or creating an encrypted
archive.