Re: Encrypted remote backups & issues

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 01:21:08PM +0200, Hein Roehrig wrote:
> Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com> writes:
> > Try http://sourceforge.net/projects/star/ 
> 
> Ah, thanks :-)
> 
> However, this appears to be little more than a convenience hack that
> always reduces to piping through an encryption program. This would
> preclude any simple updating of the archive, wouldn't it?

sectar integrates with gnutar. I had it running with the full
power of gnutar and encryption as just another compression option.

I don't know if anyone went anywhere with my patches: it was
a couple years ago when I last looked at it.
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