On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> 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.
Except when using afio, which has fault tolerance, and will encrypt each
file individually, when fed the name of an encryption program. I
haven't personally used this feature, but use compression instead, which
works the same way in afio, and can also endanger your backup the same
way pointed out above, with other archivers, where the whole archive is
affected.
LCR
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L. C. Robinson
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