I've never used it either.  I've always used SSHFS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS

On Fri, August 31, 2007 10:26 am, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> Wow, nifty. I've never used it.
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> Nicholas Istre wrote:
>> fish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files_transferred_over_shell_protocol
>>
>> On Thu, August 30, 2007 5:01 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>>> fish?
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>>> 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?
>>>>
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