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James schrieb: |
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> Florian Philipp <f.philipp <at> addcom.de> writes: |
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>> I'm in need of a backup tool and an advice would be helpful because I |
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>> need some special functionality. |
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>> I want to make backups from my laptop to a cardreader (pcmcia), making |
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>> daily full and hourly incremental backups *if the card is plugged in* |
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>> (which might not be the case for as long as two days). |
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>> Additionally I need some kind of encryption. |
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> Hello Florian, |
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> I do not have any suggestions (yet) but as of today, I've been thinking |
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> about writing an application to process financial data, using some type |
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> of robust encryption, where the (encrypted) data files are stored |
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> onto a usb stick. The only time the app can run is when it detected the |
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> encrypted usbstick is ready.... I do not want to even store the data on the |
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> computer's HD. |
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> Not exactly the same thing, but similar. I'll be curious to see |
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> what ideas or existing solutions get posted to your question.... |
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> James |
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Sounds like a job for good old GPG/PGP. You could encrypt and sign the |
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data. Then no one can fake the data files and they are encrypted. |
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