Re: Encrypted backups
2004-07-29 10:57:05
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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
>
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