From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 12 17:34:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA00486 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 17:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA00474 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 17:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA22927; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:04:14 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706130034.KAA22927@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: encrypted backups. In-Reply-To: from "David E. Cross" at "Jun 12, 97 04:14:47 pm" To: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:04:14 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David E. Cross stands accused of saying: > I backup my data to a 'public' device, and have sensative data on that > device that I would prefer to keep trying eyes away from, I currently > do this with a: > tar -cvf - | bdes | ssh -l user host "cat >/dev/rmt0" 2>/tmp/tar.log > > (the network is also inseure) > > is there a better way to do this. What's wrong with the above method? Looks pretty good to me. > David Cross -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[