On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:42:47 +0100 Prefer Anon <my.m...@gmail.com> wrote: | Hi, | | I've found a related post in this mailing list in the past but it doesn't | completely clear my confusion: | | http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1321634 | | I have a desktop and a laptop that I would like to sync (my home dir which | is ~8 gb large) using an ssh-accessible server. I only want my files to | appear on the server in encrypted form. I am considering some different | options and am hoping someone with some familiarity with encfs can tell me | which one makes more sense. | | First just to clarify I am somewhat hesitant to store my data directly on | an encfs mount since I want to be able to check what's happening before it | gets synced. Also I'm worried that if all my data is in encfs then if I | ever login and forget to mount it some programs will freak out, etc... | As your primary files are not going to be encrypted, I would mount your home as a reverse encrypted directory, then rsync (or otherwise) that to the remote server.
That would produce the least amount of traffic for minor changes to just a few files, and the files are never seen in an unencrypted on the remote host. A very important aspect for this type of service. This should also work well for a cloud computing sync service. as long as the cloud 'sync' is only performed AFTER the reverse encrypted directory is setup. Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <a.thys...@griffith.edu.au> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Yeap, I died on level twenty when my pet dragon caught a cold!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Castle http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Encfs-users mailing list Encfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/encfs-users
