On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:12:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I have an encfs encrpted partition on my home machine.. However I want > a back up offsite. > > The encrypted partition would be mounted, the contents tarred/gzipped, > mcrypt'ed on home machine then scp'ed to the remote for offsite > storage once a week or so, overwriting each time.
Why not just tar up the underlying encfs partition? The data is already encrypted, what's the point of decrypting it to encrypt it again? That way you don't need to rely on any encryption software on the remote computer. -- Neil Bothwick Puns are bad, but poetry is verse...
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