On Wednesday, 02.04.2008 at 16:54 -0500, Nomad wrote:

> I'm having some strange issues as well, trying to do encrypted backups on
> FreeBSD.  Let me ask this:
> 
> 1.  Is encrypted storage of backups a production feature?

I got this working without too much of a problem.

1. Create a key file and a passphrase as described in 'man amcrypt',
store them in the locations indicated.

2. Use a config such as the following to perform the actual encryption:

define dumptype whatever {

   # [... other settings ...]
   encrypt server
   server_encrypt "/usr/sbin/amcrypt"
}

Dave.

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