Mostly these tools would expect a local storage location and you'd schedule scp/...

frankzinger · on June 18, 2015

Cool, could you please give me a few examples?

icebraining · on June 18, 2015

I've never used it, but I've seen people on HN recommend Attic. It dedups and encrypts. 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 · on June 18, 2015

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 [2] http://obnam.org

stephenbez · on June 19, 2015

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...

frankzinger · on June 19, 2015

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/. 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

frankzinger · on June 18, 2015

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.