On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 11:40:46 +0100, Dan Johansson wrote: > > I use a combination of sshfs and encfs to keep my backups encrypted at > > Strongspace. You can use this with any online backup or web hosting > > services as long as they allow ssh file transfers (you don't need ssh > > login). > > This sounds like an interesting approach, would you mind sharing some > more details about your setup/configuration?
Initially I tried mounting the remote directory using sshfs and then creating an encfs mount on it. however, this ran exceptionally slowly so I tool a different approach. I creating a local encfs mount with encfs /path/to/data-enc /path/to/data-plain Then used rsync to backup the required directories to /path/to/data-plain which left encrypted versions of them in /path/to/data-enc. Then I simply used rsync to sync the encrypted directory to the remote backup server. Each backup run now consists of encfs /path/to/data-enc /path/to/data-plain rsync /src/dir /path/to/data-plain rsync -a /path/to/data-enc/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backups/ fusermount -u /path/to/data-plain This is done via cron each night. I can access individual files from the encrypted backup with sshfs -o idmap=user [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backups /path/to/data-enc encfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backups /path/to/data-plain I also needed to put my SSH public key in .ssh/authorized_keys to avoid giving passwords every time the backup ran. The sshfs and encfs documentation is quite good, but feel free to ask if you need any more info. -- Neil Bothwick Check three friends. If they're OK, you're it.
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