Re: [Duplicity-talk] Newbie, trying to synchronise encrypted data

[Karl O. Pinc]

On 04/05/2013 06:51:23 AM, Arnd Grossmann wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > On 04/04/2013 12:28:35 PM, Arnd Grossmann wrote:
> >> On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, address@hidden wrote:
> >>> On 04.04.2013 18:31, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> >>>> You could, e.g., use an encrypted sshfs mounted filesystem
> >>>> and rsync.
> >> I need to keep the files encrypted on the server. This would only
> >> work
> >> if
> >> I individually encrypted each file on the client before rsync.
> >
> > I was thinking you'd encrypt from the local end,
> > so, e.g., you could loop mount a file on the remote side
> > with an encrypted fs in the file.
> 
> I am sorry for not pointing out that any machine except that one 
> where
> the 
> files are stored can be frequently offline and must therefore keep 
> the
> 
> files for offline use.

That just means that you need to copy back and forth from the
encrypted fs, since you won't have it mounted all the time.

> The machines are my different computers and I store the stuff I need
> to 
> have with me on all machines. When I stop working, I encrypt and
> upload my 
> data. On whichever computer I use next the first thing is to download 
> and decrypt before starting to work. Since changes are few and files
> are 
> many I was looking for a way do the same with incremental backup. 

People often use revision control systems for this sort of stuff,
git, darcs, mercurial, etc.  rsync works too.



Karl <address@hidden>
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