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Re: Amanda encryption

2008-01-04 17:13:19
Subject: Re: Amanda encryption
From: "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin AT zmanda DOT com>
To: "Paul Crittenden" <paul.crittenden AT simpson DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:03:21 -0500
On Jan 4, 2008 3:39 PM, Paul Crittenden <paul.crittenden AT simpson DOT edu> 
wrote:
> Well, since I have received no response on my enquiry, I am assuming
> that either no one is using the encryption feature of amanda or I am the
> only one to have this issue.
>
> Because of the data I am trying to backup I have been charged with
> making encrypted backups. I was hoping that Amanda would do the trick
> since it is free but apparently not.
>
> I will have to look elsewhere I guess.

Sorry there was no response.  For my part, I don't know much about
encryption, beyond how it fits into Amanda.  The page you link to is
quite out of date, unfortunately -- amaespipe included in Amanda now,
for one thing.

>From the error, it sounds like GPG isn't finding its keys.  Are things
set up as described here:
  http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Amcrypt
Perhaps someone with a more modern encryption implementation jump in?

Dustin

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