Noel Kelly wrote: > Hi Richard, > > <snip>Duplicity makes a full backup and then adds the incremental ones on > top. Every week or so you have to make a new full backup which means > transferring your entire dataset to the offsite server again. <snip> > > So Dirvish is my choice and I too am still working out the best way to get > encrypted Dirvish-style backups stored remotely without using encrypted > filesystems. >
Okay, what about this for a thought: an encrypted tar What IF an encrypted tar file was made and then that encrypted tar file was rsync'ed to the remote location? What gets transferred? The whole file or just the parts of the new tar that are different? If rsync only transfers the deltas between the two encrypted tar files then one could have efficient bandwidth transfers of backups AND dirvish would provide the ability to have revisions. I know that a truecrypt volume could be unmounted and the truecrypt file rsync'ed, but what about encrypted tar files?? Would the same be true? The next question would be -- isn't there a project out there that mounts encrypted tars as a filesystem? -- Richard _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
