Slightly off-topic Richard but we are handling this conundrum with encrypted offsite backups and dirvish by mounting the remote server using NFS and then using LUKS locally to unlock 50 10Gb encrypted containers. We can then run dirvish as normal on effectively local folders. Anyone tampering with the physical machine sees nothing but the closed containers and the NFS traffic is effectively encrypted and the keys never leave our local machine.
We did look at duplicity but were put off by the fact it has to do full/incremental routines whereas dirvish is just one rolling incremental. Cheers Richard wrote: > I've seen some google hits and I've seen Paul Slootman discussing the > issue a few years back. So what is the final word on transferring large > files? > > I'm trying to rsync an encrypted container that contains my dirvish bank > to a remote site. This lets me store my dirvish vault offsite in an > encrypted format without the threat of data theft by the offsite storage > company. > > The encrypted container is 117gig (122BillionBytes). The initial file > was scp'ed up using the option to limit bandwidth. (It took about four > days). I've tested this same operation with a smaller file (800meg) and > it worked -- so I know the functionality is sound. > > I had to use the --checksum option for sure because the date and time > doesn't change on the file that contains the filesystem. Is there some > other option that I can give? > > (I know this isn't quite a dirvish question, but what better people to > understand rsync that the premier users of rsync -- dirvish!) > > -- ======================= Noel Kelly Citrus Networks m: 07939 528 478 t: 0207 100 2410 e: [email protected] ======================= Citrus Networks UK Ltd is registered in England and Wales with company number 3927941. Registered Office: Gladstone House, 77-79 High St, Egham, Surrey TW20 9HY. VAT Reg. 748716690 ======================= _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
