First, I suggest that you cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that
others can also help.
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:17:32PM -0500, brent harding wrote:
> It seems to not need the internal module, I could load it anyway, never
> loaded zftape. I got the ftape with kernel 2.2.15, figured it's module,
> seeing it's in, would work real good, I ran a successfull backup with it. I
> just use it off the normal floppy controller, wonder how it just knew the
> parameters to use, making invalid choices also. Why debian 2.2 would fill
> in bad values for ftape, don't know, I use it with a T3000, that's supposed
> to store 3.2 gigs compressed, 1.6 not compressed. I suppose the name of the
> backup doesn't matter, as if I put it in in windows, it shows that it's an
> ftape volume, unreadable there of course (colorado backup must not use tar
> to back up files in windows). Can I password backups with ftape?
I'm confused; does this mean that you have it working, or not?
Colorado Backup won't understand tar. If it understands QIC-122, then
hold on a month or two, I'm working on it.
Password protecting is security-by-obscurity, which is pointless with
ftape, because it allows direct access to the tape device easily (in
Windows it is just a tiny bit harder). I could bypass password
protection on backups easily.
On the other hand, if you want properly secure backups, then you
should encrypt. Get gnupg (http://www.gnupg.org), and get it to use
symmetric encryption through pipes; then you can pipe tar through to
gnupg and then to ftape, encrypting on-the-fly.
Robie.
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