I was poking around at the FUSE entry on wikipedia and I found this article ( http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/02/21/howto-encfs-encrypted-file-system-in-ubuntu-and-fedora-gnu-linux/ ) which suggests that you can use EncFS on top of GmailFS or, implicitly, SSHFS. This would let rsync see the remote files unencrypted, while both the tunnel to the remote system and the remote files are encrypted.
You might want to look into these solutions, though I wouldn't know about performance. -Nick links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS On Wed, August 29, 2007 11:55 pm, 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? > > -- > Joey Kelly > < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > > http://joeykelly.net > > How many spyware pop-ups did you get on your Windows computer today? _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
