Re: Encrypted remote backups & issues

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:56:14PM +0200, Hein Roehrig wrote:
> Yes, this would work with tar, too. However, date-based incremental
> backups don't work well 
> * for large files with small changes
> * when you can't trust the time stamp (what happens when files or
>   directories are moved? file hierachies untarred?)

Do you know about star? I tried to get an extra switch added
to gnutar for it at one point but I don't think it ever
happened. When built with support for it, tar could encrypt
files the same way you bzip2 them.

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