[RndTbl] Encrypting a filesystem

Shawn Wallbridge shawn at synack-hosting.com
Wed Jan 24 22:47:59 CST 2007


On 24-Jan-07, at 6:56 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:

> Okay... The encFS site doesn't have a whole lot of explanation,  
> other than the simple case. How do I set things up so that I can  
> use rsync over ssh and store files in the remote encFS filesystem?  
> I'd like to set this up to run as a cron job. Yep - secure remote  
> backup.
>
> I've got ssh, rsync and encFS installed and working individually,  
> and also rsync using ssh. Do you have to manually mount the  
> encrypted filesystem every time you log in?

Their was also an article in one of the Linux Magazines (Journal I  
think) about using GPG, tar, etc to do remote backups that were  
encrypted.

shawn



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