-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/07 16:01, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > less frequent burn to tiny CD-R to fit in the Bank's Safety Deposit Box. > > Before I go away anywhere (i.e. out of town), I copy the most important > of the backup to a 4 GB USB stick. > > This means that I have a separate directory called "essential_backup" > with a symlink in each user's home directory. They are to place a > symlink of any critical data in that directory. That directory is > tarred up (following the symlinks) very frequently indeed and propogated > to the other box immediatly. > > The regular stuff is tarred up (tgz) and split to 650 MB size e.g. > backup.tgz.aa to fit on CD-Rs.
That's good for personal use (I do something similar, but send it off to an external drive), but not adequate for a server. > If security of the backups is required (other than physical security of > the media), then I use openssl to encrypt it with an unencrypted README > file, with the commands used to encrypt and decrypt (minus the actual > password), included on each backup media. How do you do that? (I'd have uses gpg.) > So, to answer your question re software: tar, gunzip, split, cat (to > rejoin splits), openssl, K3B, rsync, and mc. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHVdMxS9HxQb37XmcRAtriAKDXXDXRmtOEK5aBgXsUk9GnOaHxGACgxSKV AKllYMLnaZb3k0TUNedJLdk= =4a5I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
