[geeks] security-conscious backup

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> find <sourcedirectory> -exec cat {} \| openssl enc -des3  -k <keyfile>
> 	\| gzip -c -9  > /backupdirectory/{} \;

You'd probably want to compress before you encrypt, as encrypted data
doesn't tend to squish well.  Alternately, he could script something
like WinRAR, which supposedly has pretty decent encryption and
understands compression innately.

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