archive/encryption

[Red Squirrel]

I'm looking at backing up my most important data to my game server which is hosted in the states just so I have an offsite backup in case something happens such as my house burns down, transformer explosion causing EMP, flood, city/province/country wide destruction, etc.

My current plan is having a script copy the most important files in one location, make an archive of it, probably a tar.gz, then use very strong encryption on it, and upload it to my dedicated server which is in texas. So unless something takes out Canada and USA, I'm pretty much safe.

I'm just not sure how to go about encrypting it, what would be the best way of doing this? I need something extremely strong. In terms of how long it takes, does not really matter. In the end, I just want a super secure compressed archive thats a couple gigs. Then I'll find the easiest way to get it uploaded to the server. I'd probably run this job like once a month.

 

[kamper]

I'm sure pgp will work nicely for you. Encrypting something well really isn't that hard, you're more likely to get bitten by other things. For instance, what is your encryption key? Something you can remember? Something long enough you have to store somewhere else? If so, how are you going to make sure the encryption key is safe?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah the key is something I've considered as well. I'd have to make sure its something I will always know as it could be many years till I need it, if never (hopefully never).