Re: Encrypted remote backups & issues

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Dale Amon <amon@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Do you know about star?

No... googling unearthed 

http://www.cactus.com/ 
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html

I guess the second one is more relevant ;-)

> I tried to get an extra switch added
> to gnutar for it at one point but I don't think it ever
> happened. When built with support for it, tar could encrypt
> files the same way you bzip2 them.

Sorry I don't quite follow... "it" == "encryption" ?

Does star allow incremental operations that allow changing a large
archive in place? How would you seamlessly encrypt that?

Thanks,
Hein


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