Hi all, I'd appreciate any insight into whether others think I'm doing something wrong or whether this could be a bug.
What I'm trying to achieve is having two or more machines backing up a shared home directory to a untrusted location (eventually SSH over the internet). I would prefer that the home directories on the work laptop/desktop machines don't need encrypting with encfs so I am using the --reverse feature of encfs to create an encrypted 'view'. This encrypted directory will then be synced to a server so the other machines can then also pull down that directory to their reverse encrypted view and automatically decrypt to their actual unencrypted home directory. Files will be edited on any of the machines that share a home so the synchonisation must happen both ways. I have a test setup on my machine to made sure everything generally works. I have two directories representing home ones on different work machines, two dirs representing the reverse encrypted views mounted via fuse, and one more representing the remote dir on the server. So far I can add and edit a file in one unencrypted home dir, copy it's encrypted version to the second encrypted view via the remote dir. The second encrypted dir representing the other machine decrypts the new file and it appears perfectly saved in the other machine's home folder. The problem happens when i come to use rsync or unison to sync the reverse encrypted fuse directories. Here is the error I get when rsyncing from the remote server dir to the reverse encrypted dir: damian@pc:~/sync$ rsync -av --delete remotedir/ homedir_crypt2/ sending incremental file list lLw0AOIAWt9v5Jeb2H8xW,WZ rsync: mkstemp "/home/damian/sync/homedir_crypt2/.lLw0AOIAWt9v5Jeb2H8xW,WZ.hwiLwE" failed: Input/output error (5) sent 192 bytes received 31 bytes 446.00 bytes/sec total size is 1093 speedup is 4.90 rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1070) [sender=3.0.9] Likewise, unison gives a similar error: damian@pc:~/sync$ unison -batch remotedir/ homedir_crypt2/ ... Error in querying file information: Input/output error [lstat(/home/damian/sync/homedir_crypt/lLw0AOIAWt9v5Jeb2H8xW,WZ)] ... Failed: Error in querying file information: Input/output error [lstat(/home/damian/sync/homedir_crypt2/.unison.lLw0AOIAWt9v5Jeb2H8xW,WZ.7342823a9de35b665d72e5e728d2c7d7.unison.tmp) My thinking is that maybe some of the filesystem calls these programs use are not being passed through encfs correctly to the real filesystem. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Damian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Encfs-users mailing list Encfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/encfs-users
