Alexandre Joly wrote: > This is a requirement here at my company to have encrypted archives > for > off-site backup.
Yeah, but Tino's question was why you'd want to use zip instead of a compressed tarball, because metadata like permissions and ownership can't be stored in a zip file (AFAIK). You could also create a tar archive and encrypt that, right? Or store the archive on an encrypted volume. Nils Breunese. > Tino Schwarze wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:18:50AM -0400, Alexandre Joly wrote: >> >>> Well, I can see WinZip 11 has support for 128- and 256-bit AES >>> encryption. PKZIP, on the other hand, is weak and can be cracked >>> within >>> minutes. >>> >>> My initial question was, anyone ever modified BackupPC in order to >>> archive in ZIP format instead of bz2 or gzip? >>> >> >> Why would you want to do that? You loose lots of meta information by >> going to ZIP instead of tar.gz. Compression is inferior and every >> decent archive browser tool should support .tar.gz anyway. >> >> Bye, >> >> Tino. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
