[ale] Personal Backup Strategies?

[JK]

Oy, I apologize for my previous reply. I completely mis-understood
your message, Ed.

-- JK


On 2/4/2010 7:08 AM, Ed Cashin wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Robert<rs at ale.spam.futz.org>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 01:53:24PM -0500, David Tomaschik wrote:
>>> Rsync might be viable, but I suppose the files are unencrypted (excluding
>>> the SSH tunnel) in transfer -- rsyncing the raw LVM probably results in way
>>> too much overhead.  Guess it's another place to setup LUKS-crypt.
>>
>> This is why I use encfs instead of LUKS... encfs is a fuse mount over
>> a regular filesystem which has the encrypted files. I rsync that to
>> my remote sites..
>
> 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.
>


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