Backup encryption key

[Yuval Hager]

On Thursday 23 April 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > 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.

How do you use the password in an automated backup then?

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yuval
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