On Thursday 23 April 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > How do you use the password in an automated backup then? > > Actually, I do not automate it. This is the command that I use to make > the tarball: > $ tar -zcvf - /home/user/ | openssl des3 -salt -k PASSWORD | dd > of=DATE.tbz > > And this one to decrypt it: > $ dd if=DATE.tbz | openssl des3 -d -k PASSWORD | tar zvxf -
Well, I was looking for a more streamlined solution. Something that is: 1) automatic 2) offsite (e.g. online) 3) bandwidth and space efficient (due to (2) above) 4) (opt.) encrypted 5) incremental I currently use rdiff-backup, but it does not abide to (3) above. I started looking into duplicity (from the same author), and then thought about description, hence the original post. -- yuval
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