Re: [BackupPC-users] destination directory and encryption

On 03/09/15 06:06, František Starý wrote:

What about this?
http://rsyncrypto.lingnu.com/index.php/Home_Page

I've been thinking about trying it, but never did..
AFAIK it should look as an normal rsync server for BackupPC, so it could work.

My concern about this is it hasn't seen a new version in 7 years... it looks un-maintained/abandoned. Does it even support the more recent rsync protocol version?

IMHO, you would still benefit from the advantages of backuppc (web interface, scheduling, and even pooling (within the one host, not shared to multiple hosts).

BTW, I suppose if you used the same private key for a group of machines (eg, all belonging to the same department), then you would also get dedupe across multiple machines.

Regards,
Adam

Frantisek.

Dne 2.9.2015 v 22:01 Bowie Bailey napsal(a):

You could use that to encrypt an archive copy of a host, but it wouldn't work for encrypting the whole backup directory, which is what I believe he is looking for.

Bowie

On 9/2/2015 3:50 PM, Brad Alexander wrote:

You might be able to use something like stenc (http://sourceforge.net/projects/stenc/). We use it at work to encrypt the stream to LTO tapes. That said, I don't know if it will work with backuppc....and if you trust sourceforge...

--b

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Dr. Boris Neubert <omega AT online DOT de> wrote:

Am 2. September 2015 16:15:34 schrieb Bowie
>
>> and how can be a backup encoded (because of unsecure cloud server or
>> similar)?
>
> I believe the only way to do this is to have the data directory reside
> on an encrypted filesystem.
>
I am also looking for a reasonable solution for encrypting remote backups.
Encryption of the underlying filesystem on the remote end would not do the
job because data are readily accessible as long as the filesystem is mounted.

I would like encryption on the local end with a key that is kept local and
a salt, e.g. the md5 checksum of the file. This ensures encryption already
when file is in transit. For my setup, this would require getting in
between reading the local file and transferring the then encrypted file via
rsync (similar principle for restoring file).

Could this be achieved with custom commands?

Best regards
Boris

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