Hi.

I am a data enthusiast with a passion for Free and Open Source Software. I am an environmentalist and care about social inclusion & privacy.

Encrypted Backup via rsync

Backups have been somewhat of a pain for me for quite a while, as I could never find a suitable, easy to manage and easy to recover option for my private computer. My goal was to create a simple off-site backup routine (i.e. “the cloud”), which would be easy to recover from, suitably fast - ideally with atomic/delta updates - and reasonably secure, i.e. strong default encryption like AES256-level. I tried several options like 7z with encryption and low (or no) compression rate, sending a whole ZIP archive to a remote storage or even updating existing archives....

April 7, 2023 · 11 min · 2212 words · JayVii