Ben Escoto wrote:
"Miguel Angel Rodriguez" <address@hidden>
wrote the following on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:55:33 +0100
I woul'd store my remote backup encrypted. What can I do ?
If you're just worried about encrypted storing, I guess you could put
your rdiff-backup repository on an encrypted filesystem.
This is good for if your server physically gets stolen (which if you
have it in a colo, is a *very* rare chance), but otherwise pretty
pointless for a good backup solution.
If you want to make sure the server never sees your unencrypted data,
you could use programs specifically written for that, like duplicity
(which I wrote, and still use), hdup, etc.
Up until now, I didn't know you wrote Duplicity (very nice product,
except for it's age). For people that wanted secure backups, I used
box-backup, but it's extremely cumbersome to restore, so frankly, I
don't like it that much.
Duplicity would be the ultimate backup solution, except that the last
release was in August of 2003, and wasn't even stable. I did notice
that it did implement some of the rdiff code to get deltas on
directories, etc.
A suggestion from someone who desperately wants the security of
box-backup, Duplicity, etc. with the functionality of rdiff-backup,
would there be a way to implement Duplicity code into rdiff-backup to
give the option of storing encrypted?
-Mike
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