You could use a compilation of either set A) Compress::Zlib and Net::SCP, to compress that data stream down, and then shoot it across the network fully encrypted, or B) Try and fight the beast which is Net::SSH::Perl. I have not successfully gotten Net::SSH::Perl to work consistantly and reliably on a Solaris box ranging from verions 2.6 -> 2.9. It also has massive dependacies. But if you do manage to get it working, its power is simply amazing.

This also depends on the size of the data you are looking back up, and what standard procedure is where you are at. A non perlish solution off the top of my head is, I believe you can create an SSH tunnel from a local port to a remote port and then allow traffic across the tunnel (havent played with the tunneling in a bit, and forget how to go about defining a tunnel securely.. I.e so random joe can't make use of it). So you could ufsdump to a local port, which will encrypt the data, forward it to the remote server and decrypt all in one fell swoop.

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In reply to Re: Encrypted Dumps by l2kashe
in thread Encrypted Dumps by Anonymous Monk

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