> I've been considering encrypting my backups (e.g. using duplicity), but I am > always afraid to lose the backup key when I lose the data I need to > restore. This has the unfortunate implications of practically having no > backups at all. > > I'd like to ask the list, when you backup your data (and you do, don't > you?) - do you use encryption? If so, what measures do you take to ensure > the key is safer than the data itself? >
My backups are merely encrypted tarballs of my $HOME directory, with a password. Like you, I fear not having access to whatever data that I need to open my backups, but do not want to leave them unencrypted. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
