On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:32 PM, John Magolske <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to create encrypted backups onto a remote server in such a > way that the remote server never sees anything unencrypted. The idea > would be to sync my home directory onto a local drive (using rsync or > rdiff-backup) into a directory that gets encrypted by ecryptfs, then > rsync that encrypted directory up to a remote server via ssh:
Hi John, Your examples would work. However, it can be much simpler than that if you're using an eCryptfs encrypted home director. In that case, you just need: $ rsync -aP $HOME/.Private/ example.com:/srv/backup/ All of the data in .Private is already encrypted. No decrypted information (or keys) would ever end up on the backup server. This is exactly what I do, FWIW. Cheers, -- :-Dustin Dustin Kirkland Ubuntu Core Developer _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ecryptfs-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
