Re: good text based front ends and the idea of the volume table segment

[Wolfgang Weisselberg]

Hi, r.basak!

Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
produced 2,1K in 58 lines:

> 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.

Remember though that a single bit error can (and probably[1]
will) kill all of the backup after the error.

-Wolfgang

[1] There are ways to avoid it, but to do that safely and
    usably, one would have to dive deep into cryptography.