If you're an OS X user, encrypted DMG made with the sparse bundles option
will get you there.  The bundles break the image into "bands", so changes
are only made to a subset of the bands that comprise the filesystem image
in a mount/change/umnount cycle, vs altering the whole image.


On 7/22/13 3:52 PM, "Josh Smift" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I use a couple of external hard drives with whole-disk encryption, but
>that's only for local backups. I keep meaning to look into whether I could
>create a whole-disk-encrypted filesystem-in-a-file, which I could mount,
>back up to, unmount, and then copy off-site. Simpler than encrypting and
>decrypting individual files, harder to do incremental backups.
>
>Anyone actually done this? It seems like it should be simple, I just
>haven't (a) put the pieces together; (b) thought for more than about
>thirty seconds about potential pitfalls.
>
>                                      -Josh ([email protected])
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