encrypt linux backup folder using gpg

[Kaushal Shriyan]

Hi Francesco,

Thanks for the reply. I did the below

[centos]# ls helloworld/
check_cpu_perf.sh  check_mem.pl  jdk-8u162-linux-x64.rpm
[centos]# gpg-zip --encrypt --output hellogpg --gpg-args  -r kaushal
helloworld
/usr/bin/tar: kaushal: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
gpg: missing argument for option "-r"
[centos]#

Am i missing something?

Thanks Wiktor, I'll check it out.

Best Regards,

Kaushal

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 4:52 PM Wiktor Kwapisiewicz <wiktor at metacode.biz>
wrote:

> On 06.11.2018 10:42, Francesco Ariis wrote:
> > Hello Kaushal,
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 11:25:47AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> >> I am using CentOS 7.5 Linux OS in my setup. I have compressed a folder
> >> using tar utility tar czvf backupfolder.tar.gz backupfolder. Is there a
> way
> >> to encrypt backupfolder.tar.gz using gpg? Are there any best practices
> to
> >> use gpg application to encrypt the data. Any help will be highly
> >> appreciated and i look forward to hearing from you.
> >
> > in Debian is there a small utility (`gpg-zip`, found in the `devscripts`
> > package) which does just that. Maybe it's packaged in CentOS too!
> > -F
>
> Maybe that's too simple but what about just:
>
>   gpg --encrypt --recipient $YOU backupfolder.tar.gz
>
> Of course after generating the key (gpg --gen-key).
>
> Best practices:
>   - use most recent GnuPG,
>   - you can generate keys on another computer (offline?) and export just
> public parts to the one that does encryption,
>   - you can move decryption keys to a hardware token.
>
> Kind regards,
> Wiktor
>
> --
> https://metacode.biz/@wiktor
>
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