Backup of mounted encrypted folder = security risk?

Afox

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Hello,

if I make a backup (Snapshot-mode) of a VM that currently has an encrypted folder mounted (ecryptfs). Would that be a security risk?

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Afox
 
if I make a backup (Snapshot-mode) of a VM that currently has an encrypted folder mounted (ecryptfs). Would that be a security risk?
A snapshot on backup is made on the block level of the VMs disk. Ecryptfs is an encryption stack on top of a filesystem that encrypts data and/or directories, stored encrypted on the disk.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ECryptfs
 
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so what you want to say is that only the encrypted data gets backed up and there might only be a risk if a swap partition is used?
 
I don't know how SWAP is treated.
 

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