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Personally, I use encrypted sparse disk images. (You can make them with Disk Utility.) It makes a disk image using many small files in a folder. Might leak some
by kayodelycaon 5y ago
Personally, I use encrypted sparse disk images. (You can make them with Disk Utility.) It makes a disk image using many small files in a folder. Might leak some information related about size or number of the contents, but the contents and metadata of the filesystem are encrypted.
This method can result in corruption of the disk image if you’re not careful.
Edit: This is probably the most seamless way to handle encryption. It’s built in to the OS and you can save the password in Keychain if you like. Used it with Dropbox for years. Just make sure to unmount and let it sync before opening the disk on another system.
- jsjohnst 5y agoI use this same route pretty heavily across several cloud backup providers and never had corruption issues, but yes, it’s technically possible corruption could occur.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoCloud backup is unlikely to corrupt a disk image. Syncing one through Dropbox and having it open on two computers at the same time is living dangerously. :)
- jsjohnst 5y agoHaving two independent writers to a file is generally living dangerously, even without the extra complexity of unpredictable async file syncing.