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I understood what you said, I just didn't know that there were tools in existence that are as good as or better than tarsnap at the archiving part which allow y

I understood what you said, I just didn't know that there were tools in existence that are as good as or better than tarsnap at the archiving part which allow you to specify the storage location. Edit: I used 'specify the storage location' very loosely. I.e., I realise it could mean simply piping the archive data to yet another program in the shell.

stephenr 11y ago
Mostly these tools would expect a local storage location and you'd schedule scp/rsync/whatever to copy to the destination of your choice.
- frankzinger 11y ago
  Cool, could you please give me a few examples?
  - icebraining 11y ago
    I've never used it, but I've seen people on HN recommend Attic. It dedups and encrypts. https://attic-backup.org https://attic-backup.org Personally, I use git-annex, which isn't exactly a backup tool but a general distributed file manager which can, among other things, automatically make encrypted copies of the files to various places (SSH servers, S3, Google Drive, etc).
  - stephenr 11y ago
    As mentioned, there is Attic [1] and Obnam [2]. Both do dedup and encryption, Attic can also store the data remotely via SSH (either with or without installation on the remote end) and Obnam can handle remote storage to an SFTP server. [1] https://attic-backup.org https://attic-backup.org [2] http://obnam.org http://obnam.org
  - frankzinger 11y ago
    To my siblings, thanks for the examples. It's good that there is a more UNIXy alternative approach. However, until I have reason to dislike tarsnap's archiving or encryption or AWS, it's simply easier to use a single tool.
  - stephenbez 11y ago
    I use EncFS with Dropbox. It's an almost completely transparent user-space filesystem. Basically you store your files in a given folder, and it automatically stores a parallel encrypted copy in a different folder. http://www.howtogeek.com/121737/how-to-encrypt-cloud-storage-on-linux-and-windows-with-encfs/ http://www.howtogeek.com/121737/how-to-encrypt-cloud-storage...
    - frankzinger 11y ago
      Does it do data deduplication? Doesn't sound like it to me from skimming that article. Edit: sounds like EncFS has some significant security issues: http://sourceforge.net/p/encfs/mailman/message/31849549/ http://sourceforge.net/p/encfs/mailman/message/31849549/. No recent information in that discussion, so I don't know whether it's all been resolved. Here's an HN discussion of the audit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384730

stephenr 11y ago

Mostly these tools would expect a local storage location and you'd schedule scp/rsync/whatever to copy to the destination of your choice.

frankzinger 11y ago
Cool, could you please give me a few examples?
- icebraining 11y ago
  I've never used it, but I've seen people on HN recommend Attic. It dedups and encrypts. https://attic-backup.org https://attic-backup.org Personally, I use git-annex, which isn't exactly a backup tool but a general distributed file manager which can, among other things, automatically make encrypted copies of the files to various places (SSH servers, S3, Google Drive, etc).
- stephenr 11y ago
  As mentioned, there is Attic [1] and Obnam [2]. Both do dedup and encryption, Attic can also store the data remotely via SSH (either with or without installation on the remote end) and Obnam can handle remote storage to an SFTP server. [1] https://attic-backup.org https://attic-backup.org [2] http://obnam.org http://obnam.org
- frankzinger 11y ago
  To my siblings, thanks for the examples. It's good that there is a more UNIXy alternative approach. However, until I have reason to dislike tarsnap's archiving or encryption or AWS, it's simply easier to use a single tool.
- stephenbez 11y ago
  I use EncFS with Dropbox. It's an almost completely transparent user-space filesystem. Basically you store your files in a given folder, and it automatically stores a parallel encrypted copy in a different folder. http://www.howtogeek.com/121737/how-to-encrypt-cloud-storage-on-linux-and-windows-with-encfs/ http://www.howtogeek.com/121737/how-to-encrypt-cloud-storage...
  - frankzinger 11y ago
    Does it do data deduplication? Doesn't sound like it to me from skimming that article. Edit: sounds like EncFS has some significant security issues: http://sourceforge.net/p/encfs/mailman/message/31849549/ http://sourceforge.net/p/encfs/mailman/message/31849549/. No recent information in that discussion, so I don't know whether it's all been resolved. Here's an HN discussion of the audit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384730