[ale] Personal Backup Strategies?

[JK]

On 2/4/2010 8:07 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Why do you assume the far end is trusted?

[snip rant]

 > Maybe I'm missing something, though.

Yeah...

...maybe the point is to leave the files in encrypted form
on the remote end.  In which case, seems like a tar or cpio
pipeline would work -- use encryption on the local end,
but leave it out on the remote end. Not sure if there's a
way to get tar to pipe individual files (rather than the
whole archive) through a command, though.

-- JK



> I pay $20/month for a rsync server.
>
> I don't  trust them with unencrypted docs.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
> On 2/4/10, JK<jknapka at kneuro.net>  wrote:
>> On 2/4/2010 7:08 AM, Ed Cashin wrote:
>>
>>> With encfs, I think the norm is for the files to be encrypted,
>>> and encfs gives you a decrypted filesystem "view" of those files.
>>> By "norm", I mean that if somebody boots your computer but
>>> can't run encfs with your password, they see the encrypted files.
>>>
>>> But I'd like the opposite: A filesystem that gives me an encrypted
>>> view of the files that are lying unencrypted on my Linux host or
>>> MacBook.  That way I can rdiff-backup the encrypted view to an
>>> less trusted remote location, and I can continue to use my filesystem
>>> as it is (only sensitive files are encrypted) for normal use.
>>
>>
>> I assume the "less trusted remote location" at least has enough
>> security in place (via an encrypted filesystem or whatever) to
>> satisfy you.  So the issue must be security during transport.
>> Use rsync over SSH, or an encrypted tunnel for whatever sync
>> tool you prefer.
>>
>> -- JK
>>
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