Amanda-Users

Re: Encrypted backups

2004-07-29 10:57:05
Subject: Re: Encrypted backups
From: Gavin Henry <ghenry AT suretecsystems DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:53:04 +0100
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On Thursday 29 Jul 2004 15:27, you wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > - the position of gzip in the pipeline was wrong in my view.
> >   it came after encryption meaning it was working on somewhat
> >   randomized data.  Thus the compression would likely be small.
>
> You don't have to put gzip in the pipeline.  Gpg compresses data by default
> (zlib level 6, according to gpg(1)), before doing encryption.

Excellent. Is there an official way of encrypting amanda, or just doing it 
this way?

>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                                               Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --
> geert AT linux-m68k DOT org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker.
> But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something
> like that. -- Linus Torvalds

- -- 
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