On 1/31/2012 6:07 PM, Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 January 2012 13:36:13 Joe Konecny wrote:
>> In an effort to fulfill an offsite backup requirement I had the idea to
>> place a password protected tar archive onto one or more of our users
>> laptops.  The laptops are taken home each night and it would be quick to
>> ftp the archive sometime during the day.
>>
>> Does anyone think this is a bad idea?
> Replace that "password protected" by "gpg encrypted" and you get a good idea.
> A very good idea is when the private key is only on a secure machine in the
> admins possesion (and on an encrypted stick at the bosses home), only the
> public key is needed to encrypt the backup. Then the decryption can only be
> done with the private key. And onced you had to use that for a restore, you
> generate (and use!) a new key-pair for the new backups.
>
>

Yes security will be addressed.  But idea of transporting the archive 
offsite with a laptop
that goes home each day is good I think.

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