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Re: Encrypted backups

2004-10-28 13:49:39
Subject: Re: Encrypted backups
From: Jason Castonguay <jcastonguay AT solfopro DOT com>
To: "John P. Looney" <john AT hosting365 DOT ie>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:44:48 -0400
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On Thursday 28 October 2004 12:18 pm, you wrote:
>  Has anyone managed to get Amanda to encrypt the backups with a given
> key on the client, so they are both transported & stored encrypted ?
> This could likely be done after compression.
>
>  I assume the amrestore program would have to know about this
> encryption, and ask for the key when it's envoked.
>
>  Seeing as Amanda only knows about tar and dump by default, this might
> be difficult to implement, but any ideas or pointers are welcome.
>
> John

http://security.uchicago.edu/tools/gpg-amanda/

Its been done to a point.  Unfortunately, its not file by file that is 
encrypted but the full tarball. So if there is an error somewhere in the 
dump/tar you'll probably lose the whole thing if recovering.

- -- 
Jason
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