eCryptFS: How to mount a backup of an encrypted home dir?
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I use eCryptFS to encrypt the home directory of my laptop. My backup script copies the encrypted files to a server (together with everything else in (home/.ecryptfs
).
How can I mount the encrypted files of the backup? I'd like to verify that I can do that, and that everything is in place.
My naive try with
mount -t ecryptfs /backup/home/.ecryptfs/boldewyn /mnt/test
didn't work, eCryptFS wanted to create a new partition.
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