On Feb 24, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Astrid Staufer wrote: > > Hallo, > I encrypt with the folowing command on a server a backup and send it on an > other server over FTP: > > "tar -czf - $mysql_backup_file $directory_to_backup | gpg --no-tty --batch > --always-trust --recipient $id_number --encrypt | curl --netrc-optional > --silent --show-error --ftp-create-dirs --retry 10 -u $ftp_user:$ftp_pwd > ftp://$ftp_host/$ftp_dir$full_backup_file -T -" > > This works with some Backups around 35Mbytes. But I've tested it also with > an 2.79Gbyte large Backup-File. It runs to the end, but the final encrypted > File is corrupt. When I try to decrypt it, it says, "no encrypted data > found"!
Since small files work, and 2.79gb doesn't, one thing to check is whether your whole pipeline (including the remote ftp server) can handle large (i.e. greater than 2^31 bytes) files. That would manifest itself as things starting to break at the 2gb mark. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
