Re: [Duplicity-talk] Automated restore

[Grant]

>>>> Can I run an automated restore of my backups to verify that they're in
>>>> working order and not tampered with?
>>>>
>>>
>>> check the manpage, action command verify
>>>  http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html
>>
>>
>> Works great.  I'm planning to put an identical dummy file on both of
>> my important systems which will be backed up to the backup server.
>> Each important system will pull the other's backups from the backup
>> server and run duplicity verify to ensure the dummy file matches.
>>
>> Is this a good strategy?  Is there a better method for this?
>>
>
> what is the reasoning behind this? why don't you simply verify your backups 
> after they are through?


My concern is that the backups could be tampered with between the time
system A sends them to the backup server and system B downloads them
from the backup server.  But now that I think about it, I would need
to keep a copy of system A's GPG key on system B and I don't want to
do that.

How can I ensure that system A's backups haven't been tampered with
once they're on system B?

- Grant