Re: Secure backups with tar

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From: Aaron Baugher
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:00

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nwaltham@my-deja.com writes:

> I have a Redhat Linux 5.2 server with the kernel upgraded
> to 2.1.10. I have taken various physical security measures
> like making lilo boot straight in without waiting for a
> prompt, passwording the bios setup and disabling the
> floppy in the BIOS. It strikes me that the weakest point,
> from a physical point of view is the tape backup. The
> tapes are made using tar, so could be read easily on other
> machines. I would like to continue using tar, but what
> could I use as a filter (some kind of compressable
> encryption with password) which would offer some kind of
> protection?

If you use afio, instead of tar, you can pretty easily
encrypt the files with pgp as they're written to tape.


Aaron
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Date: 1999/06/25
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