how do you store a bunch of files?

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 01:41:03PM -0400, Eric wrote:
> Hi.  I was just thinking about how I backup my stuff and maybe I'm not
> doing it in the best way.  I'll just encrypt (gnupg) or password protect
> what ever seems important and tar it up for storage.  I've read you can
> password protect tar (what's the command?) but I see so many apps that
> say they can crack that I wonder if it's such a good idea.  So if you
> had less than a gig of mixed files to save once in a while, how would
> you do it?  Oh, this is not a matter of national security.  Just me
> playing around.  Thanks for any tips.

Compress it, burn it to a CD twice, put one in a fireproof box
in my bedroom along with other important docs, put the other in 
a locked fireproof box somewhere else.

Encryption is for people who have serious secrets. For mere
privacy, you can generally rely on a lock.

-dsr-