Re: Encrypted backup
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 10:11:16PM +0200, Christophe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1) My goal is to upload daily some backups of my most important files
> (spreadsheets, photos, ~ 3 Gb) to the server to another off-site server
> (Debian too, with ssh access).
> As I'm not the administrator of the remote server, I'd like to encrypt
> everything (gnupg seems fine). As I've got only an 16 kb/s upload, I'd
> like to use rsync or something similar, but as my computer is an old
> one, I'd like to avoid reencrypting everything each time, and I'd like
> to avoid storing a local encrypted backup to spare disk. So I have no
> way to compare easily the encrypted backups and the local original
> files.
> I'm afraid that mounting an encrypted file on the remote server is not
> feasible (fuse + sshfs + cryptoloop ?)... Anyway, I need to be able to
> retrieve the encrypted files from another system (my Mac, even Windows
> in the worst case).
>
> The best I've thought of is hacking a shell script which stores the
> timestamps of the remote backups somewhere, and if necessary encrypts
> each file, and uploads it (scp or rsync, that won't change much).
>
> Am I dreaming?
>
> 2) Another problem are the file names, that I'd like to hide. I'd need
> something a bit more complicated than rot13, do you know one?
>
> Thanks on advance for any idea.
>
>
>
> --
> Christophe
Christophe,
Try hdup. I use it to make encrypted remote backups of my files every
day.
Ric
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