[sllug-members]: Encrypted backup tapes

[Mike Bourgeous]

Might the ancient UNIX art of pipes be useful?  I don't use tapes 
personally, but something like:

tar -zcv / | (your favorite compression) | (your favorite encryption - GPG?) 
 > /dev/tape

Mike Bourgeous


>From: "M. Alton jensen" <alt at millcreeksys.com>
>Reply-To: Salt Lake Linux Users Group Discussions <sllug-members at sllug.org>
>To: sllug-members at sllug.org
>Subject: [sllug-members]: Encrypted backup tapes
>Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:16:02 -0700
>
>Hi all, I'm looking for help with encrypting backup tapes.
>I've been doing encrypted backups for some time on external hard drives
>and would like to supplement that with some tape backups.  Using a hard
>drive makes encryption easy with dm-crypt, but I haven't been able to
>find a similar method that works with tapes.
>
>Does anyone have suggestions on how to accomplish encrypted backups on
>tape using OSS?
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>-Alt
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