On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:05:54AM +0200, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> Hi, r.basak!
Hello :-)
> 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.
Yes. I don't know about other drives, but the Ditto Max uses ECC, so
isn't this unlikely? A failure with the ECC on the tape is just as
likely as a failure of ECC (or whatever other system you use) in [1],
isn't it?
[...]
> [1] There are ways to avoid it, but to do that safely and
> usably, one would have to dive deep into cryptography.
Robie.
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