Re: Secure backup of encrypted partition

[Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer <nobody@cypherpunks.to>]

n Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:55:52 +0300
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> wrote:

> Robert Jaworski wrote:
> > I have an encrypted drive and would like to make a backup of it.
> > This backup should also be as secure as my data on disk. My simple
> > question is: how to do this?
> > 
> > I would like to:
> > - backup only the data, not the whole partition (save time and
> > media)- be able to restore every single file or the whole partition
> > - have same security like on the harddisk
> > - backup to DVD+RW
> 
> Back it up using normal tar, but pipe the tar archive through gpg or
> aespipe. Tar has no problems writing to stdout, and gpg (or aespipe)
> has no problems reading from stdin.
> 
> Regards,
> Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
> 

When I use tar -o ...... $FILE | gpg -c ......

(please sobebody help to write a working example)

and my swap is encrypted, can some unencrypted temp files be 
created in /tmp or another dir?

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