How to encrypt and burn to dvdr my home dir?
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue Dec 5 20:31:14 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 22:44 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Christian Burger wrote:
> >>Robin Laing wrote:
> >>
> >>>What about truecrypt?
> >>>
> >>>http://www.truecrypt.org/
> >>>
> >>>If I was making a backup, I would tar and encrypt as explained before
> >>>and then RAR the files to make the files sizes easier to deal with.
> >>>
> >>>Just a thought.
> >>
> >>After encryption, it isn't going to compress.
> >>
> >>Mike
> >
> >
> > Nope not much if any... but rar will chunk it into 650 meg or whatever size
>
> Not any. In fact, it will grow.
>
> > chunks that are desired....
>
> So will split, which is a standard distribution, whereas rar is
> not. If you want to be able to verify with some sort of check
> sum, then md5sum or sha1 are superior for that, and are also
> standard distribution.
>
> Use the right tool for the job.
>
> Mike
Sorry for the late response but moving from Thunderbird :) :) to
evolution :( :( and still trying to get it to work.
One thing that RAR offers that split doesn't is a way to check and
repair files. Basic encryption is also offered. Better than zip
though.
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