On Thu 17 Nov 2016 12:07:01 NZDT +1300, Pete Mundy wrote: > I have a reciprocal arrangement with a friend. We both have fibre > connections with no data caps, so we each host a USB drive & Raspberry > Pi belonging to the other. We each store (encrypted) backups at the > other's site. The (rsync) backups are scripted to occur nightly during > the early hours of the morning so as to not have any affect on our > links during the day.
Nice! Would you mind outlining your encryption methodology, please? If you were e.g. creating a tar file at your end, encrypting hat, and then rsyncing it to your friend you'd loose any advantages of rsync. > > Is anyone using a 'cloud storage' provider and provide experiences No. And the bovines would probably be home before I'd consider an American one. They provide closed-source software with their own blablabla encryption? The sky will be down on the bovines first. Don't do backups manually. rsnapshot is really good - it runs rsync for you at whatever times you want. You only have to set it up (simple). Unless you can get reliable and fast USB3 I still strongly recommend to use SATA disks. Rotate them occasionally. Encrypt the partition, store in a waterproof box, take them offsite. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
