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Xianwen Chen:
Hi,

I couldn't get encrypted backup to work. Can someone help?

I first added protect to the boot code. Then I use bcrypt to encrypt the mydata.tgz before rebooting. I used the same password after rebooting, but files were not extracted. Any hint please?

netnomad:
hi friend,

your password is used with quotes,
that means, if you use the word secret as your password, the protected mode uses "secret",
the password in quotes for the encryption.
i mentioned this subject a couple of times in the forum...
it's so easy to misunderstand the process the backup is encrypted and confuses especially novice users.

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12455.msg67387.html#msg67387
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12351.msg66580.html#msg66580

have fun to encrypt and decrypt your files!

roberts:
It is not the intended use to manually encrypt the backup. It is done automagically by use of the boot code.

Xianwen Chen:

--- Quote from: netnomad on April 27, 2012, 04:34:38 AM ---hi friend,

your password is used with quotes,
that means, if you use the word secret as your password, the protected mode uses "secret",
the password in quotes for the encryption.
i mentioned this subject a couple of times in the forum...
it's so easy to misunderstand the process the backup is encrypted and confuses especially novice users.

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12455.msg67387.html#msg67387
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12351.msg66580.html#msg66580

have fun to encrypt and decrypt your files!

--- End quote ---

Thanks a lot netnomad.

However, it didn't work.

Xianwen Chen:

--- Quote from: roberts on April 28, 2012, 12:39:31 PM ---It is not the intended use to manually encrypt the backup. It is done automagically by use of the boot code.

--- End quote ---

Thanks Robert,

I specified protect in the boot code and a password was input. However, filetool.sh -b wouldn't create an encrypted backup. Is there something I am missing?

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