On Sat, June 12, 2010 14:27, Rob Malpass wrote:
Anyone been in this situation and found a sort of Winzip for Ubuntu that
goes a bit beyond Archive manager?
Take a look at duplicity? I use it for sending backups to S3.
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On Sat, June 12, 2010 20:23, john wrote:
Hi
What you want to do is not sensible.
The best thing to do is compress first and then encrypt.
If you do both at the same time you would end up with a larger data file.
gpg uses zlib by default to compress data prior to encypting anyway, and
can
Hi all
I've been experimenting a bit lately (due to archiving big files) with
secure archives. How good is the Archive Manager built into jaunty in
terms of its comparison to say Winzip? I'm thinking more security than
compression though the better the compression the happier I am.
I would us gzip or bzip2 and then gpg if you want encryption.
If it just during copy then sync over ash has always worked well for me (and
can be stopped and started happily and it continues where you stopped)
Anton
On 12 Jun 2010 14:28, Rob Malpass li...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote:
Hi all
How good is the Archive Manager built into jaunty in
terms of its comparison to say Winzip?
It's equivalent. Archive Manager is essentially a front-end to a bunch of
file compressors. bzip2 will give you plenty good enough compression.
I'm thinking more security than
compression though the
