Re: [Duplicity-talk] Re: some usage questions regarding full/incremental backups

[Dominic]

Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> Just answering my own message since there were so many helpful replies.
> Thanks for those.
> I think I'll look around a bit more to find some way to encrypt
> rdiff-backup's stuff.
>   
We may be getting off topic here, but I asked a similar question on the 
rdiff-backup-users mailing list recently and was directed here (as well 
as to duplicity): 
http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/BackupToEncfsAcrossSshfs. I 
imagine it will be slower (perhaps much slower) than a normal 
rdiff-backup run.

Also there is a product called boxbackup http://www.boxbackup.org/ which 
offers this facility. Like rdiff-backup it uses reverse diffs but like 
duplicity it does not require you to have trust in the offsite backup. 
You would have to install the server daemon on the backup server though. 
I haven't used it but it sounds pretty neat.

An alternative if you have a second site with an internet connection is 
to set up your own secondary offsite backup server there, then the issue 
of trust might not arise (and it's cheaper).

Dominic