Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Data Privacy from system administrator withrdiff-backup

[Greg Freemyer]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Andreas Olsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:11:05 +0000, Dominic <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> Is it possible with rdiff-backup to create backups on a (linux) backup
>> server which cannot then be accessed by the system administrator? I
>> think that Duplicity was created to provide this privacy, but in other
>> respects rdiff-backup seems a much more polished solution and I wondered
>> if this problem can be overcome while sticking with rdiff-backup.
>
> I guess you could always combine a SSHFS- and a EncFS-mount.
>
> http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupToEncfsAcrossSshfs
>
> Myself I would probably prefer using Duplicity.
>
> // Andreas

I use rdiff-backup to a local encfs directory.  Then I do a rsync of
the encrypted version of the encfs directory to a third party
location.

It is working fine so far.  Admittedly my only restores from the
remote site have been tests.  ie. It is for disaster recovery purposes
only.  I use the local rdiff-backup copy for normal data recovery
needs.

Greg
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