I have been paranoid about my data recently, and even though I have a fairly nice backup system at home, I really wanted to get my data off-site. I have a Dreamhost account, and therefore 50G of backup space and each additional G only cost .10 USD. Since I use a central BackupPC server at home to connect to my other servers and my and my wife’s laptops, I am able to leverage BackupPC’s archive feature to create archives of my latest backup sets. These archives are created using tar and b|gunzip2?. However, the archives that BackupPC creates are not protected in any way, and I do not want to store my files on Dreamhost’s servers without somehow password protecting them or encrypting them.
Enter 7zip. 7zip supports protecting archives with a password, and if we use a long (20+ characters) passphrase, the archives are as protected as can be. However, 7zip does not make a good backup utility for Linux because it does not preserve the file permissions,... ... leer más en >>> akutz.wordpress.com
