On Thursday 23 April 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I've been considering encrypting my backups (e.g. using duplicity), but > > I am always afraid to lose the backup key when I lose the data I need > > to restore. This has the unfortunate implications of practically having > > no backups at all. > > > > I'd like to ask the list, when you backup your data (and you do, don't > > you?) - do you use encryption? If so, what measures do you take to > > ensure the key is safer than the data itself? > > My backups are merely encrypted tarballs of my $HOME directory, with a > password. Like you, I fear not having access to whatever data that I > need to open my backups, but do not want to leave them unencrypted.
How do you use the password in an automated backup then? -- yuval
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