[ale] Personal Backup Strategies?

[Greg Freemyer]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:43 AM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>> Oy, I apologize for my previous reply. I completely mis-understood
>> your message, Ed.
>
> Hey, no problem!
>
> I think I wasn't particularly clear, but I think that
> David Tomaschik knew what I had in mind when
> he recommended duplicity, so I'll check that out.
>
> In a nutshell, if I have unecnrypted files in /foo that
> I want to backup to a remote host, "tom", where I
> want encrypted backups to live, I was imagining
> something like this (with hypothetical fuse filesystem
> "cryptview"):
>
>  $ ls /foo
>  secret.txt
>  $ mount -t cryptview -o dir=/foo cryptview /foox
>  $ ls /foox
>  secret.txt.gpg
> ... or maybe even,
>  xa38wvbasxei.gpg
>  $ rdiff-backup /foox tom::/ecashin-stuff
>  $ ssh tom
>  tom$ ls /ecashin-stuff
>  xa38wvbasxei.gpg
>
> --
>  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>

Ed,

That should of course work, but if you ever have a disk crash and need
to pull it all back it can be a pain.

My solution:

data backed up locally to a encfs rdiff-backup repository

raw/encrypted version of the encfs repository rsynced remotely

That way the vast majority of the time restores are from local repo.
But in the event of a fire etc. I can retrieve the whole thing from
somewhere else.

Greg
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