3 Aug
2001
3 Aug
'01
17:48
Hi list, Some questions regarding "semi-safe" automated off-site backups: I do full backups locally using tar to a spare disk (as root), change the owner, and pull the backup-tars via "rsync -e ssh" as non-root to my backup machine, having empty ssh-keys on all machines to pull from for that non-root user only. 1. Is this reasonable safe? 2. What progs exist to encrypt a (tar-)stream, to have the local archives encrypted (seems to have the same problem, I want to automate this, but the backup script has to store the key somewhere...) 3. (and a bit off topic): What's your opinion on changing {backup encryption keys, root passwords) automatically with keys generated on a per-date basis ? Thanks for your thoughts, Thomas