On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:04:26 +0100, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > 3. My home directory; subversion repositories and DBMS catalogues are > backed-up to a remote account. I currently do this with a cron-job > which takes dumps; creates tar files; AES encrypts then uploads using > SSH to the remote site... which manages a history of 3 backups using a > simple shell-script. This works OK, but it is very ad-hoc... and it > won't scale as every backup requires that I upload a new copy - even if > I've only made a trivial change to my data. It would be far better if > an incremental update were possible - though I'm not willing to give up > encryption of data I send off-site.
Does your remote site use rsync? I use Strongspace and have a directory on the server set up with encfs. I tried mounting it with sshfs and then encfs but found it very slow, so what I now do is have a local directory, mounted with encfs. I backup from my home directory to that, using rsync, then I rsync that encrypted directory with the one on the server, so I am transferring pre-encrypted files. I can still mount the remote directory using sshfs and encfs if I need to, and if I need to, the lack of speed won't be my main concern. -- Neil Bothwick "Bother" said Rue, for no apparent reason
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