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Ask HN: Any Encrypted Notes Backup?
I’m keeping notes in .txt files.
Would be great to have something watching a folder of files and on each change uploading a compressed encrypted version to several clouds.
I figured that I mustn’t be the first looking for something like that.
Please recommend simple open source tools that do something like the above.
- aborsy 3y agoOr backup your text files with backup software such as restic: encrypted, with snapshots, sent to several backends. Cryptomator is ok too, but has no snapshots and cloud integration.
- kosolam 3y agoGood point about having a history of changes. It could be interesting to have a git repo as one of the backup backends.
- totetsu 3y agoThere is an encrypted mode for eMacs org
- kosolam 3y agoThanks! I’m looking for an external utility, so that I could use any editor for the text files. I actually think it shouldn’t be that hard to write a bash script to run some programs to do that. But I prefer a ready solution since it seems such a simple common need
- totetsu 3y agoIf I recall, the emacs one is a wrapper around pgp encryption. Just automatically uses key when opening and closing the file so you could open with other tools as pgp is a common standard
- 369548684892826 3y agoHave you checked out rclone? Local encryption, targets almost any cloud storage provider, and open source. Syncthing might also be part of a solution to this with the Untrusted Devices feature [1]. 0: https://rclone.org/ https://rclone.org/ 1: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html
- kosolam 3y agoThanks! Another useful tool that can be added into a solution: https://github.com/getsops/sops https://github.com/getsops/sops
- spansoa 3y agoCryptomator[0] hooked up to Dropbox. [0] https://cryptomator.org/ https://cryptomator.org/
- kosolam 3y agoYes this seems like a robust solution that is very close to what I want. I think that in this case DropBox can be replaced with RClone that syncs to a few different clouds in a loop once every say 10 sec - from a bash script or something. The thing is it’s not only about not uploading your data open to the cloud provider. It’s also about not installing a black box non open source app that is running in the background at all times.