fish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files_transferred_over_shell_protocol
On Thu, August 30, 2007 5:01 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote: > fish? > > -- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices > > Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration > > > Joey Kelly wrote: >> Guys, >> >> I have a project I'm working on that goes something like this: >> >> I want to rsync my backups somewhere off-site before the next monster >> hurricane kills us all. I do this all the time at several locations in >> and >> around floody new Orleans, but I need something out-of-state. I'd like >> to use >> some-random-webhost-company.com for off-site storage, since they're >> cheap. >> The problem is, I don't want my data to be human-readable on their >> easily-cracked server. >> >> Here's my ideal solution: I can ssh to the web host's server, no >> problem. I >> can also mount the server's filesystem via some tool like fish. I want >> to be >> able to rsync my stuff over to their server, but I want the files I >> place >> there to be encrypted, let's say with GPG. I want some tool running on >> my >> desktop here at home to transparently encrypt the files as they are >> being >> placed on the remote server. I also want rsync to be able to look into >> the >> encrypted files and see only the unencrypted versions, so that rsync >> will >> work properly. In other words, I don't want rsync to know anything about >> the >> fact that those files are encrypted on the remote server. >> >> Thoughts? >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
