Feature Request: integrate gpg encryption of images about pi-safe HOT 4 CLOSED

Hello MrOnak, Thanks for the feedback. I am glad PiSafe is useful to you. If you know of any ways to spread the word about PiSafe, I would love to know.
I will look into an option to encrypt the image file. I cannot focus on it for a while, but it makes sense.
Thanks again
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One immediate way to do this is to have Pisafe create an img file by having your backup filename end in ".img". Then pisafe will shrink the filesystem but will NOT compress the file. So you can run your own compression with encryption.
gzip --stdout - | gpg --encrypt --recipient $GPGKEYID --output $TARGETFILE
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I'm guessing since pi-safe does shrink the image after writing the initial image to disk there won't be a way to avoid having the .img on the disk, correct? If that's the case, then the piping approach I outlined above won't work. Which is probably fine for most people including myself ;)

As I said, adding the gpg step manually after the pi-safe run is not a big issue, still adding it might be a convenience feature

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Again, thanks for the feedback, it is much appreciated. I hope pisafe is useful to you.

Upon consideration, since pisafe can easily cleanly create a shrunk .img file which you can process as desired (including running through gpg), I am not going to add gpg support directly to pisafe at this time.

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