plain source -> encrypted destination: rsync + gpg

[addady at active.co.il]

Hi,

It seems that the --dest-filter patch of Kyle Jones can help you.

Here is a link
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22--dest-filter%22+group:mailing.unix.rsy
nc+group:mailing.unix.rsync&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=mailing.unix.rsync&selm
=b6f55s%24256q%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=1

Addady

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Langhoff" <ml at nzl.com.ar>
To: <rsync at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:38 AM
Subject: plain source -> encrypted destination: rsync + gpg


> We want to keep a backup or a mirror of your files in a server we don't
> fully trust. You can have an encrypted FS on a file, and copy the
> complete FS to the untrusted server, but it is inefficient, and you get
> no granularity at all.
>
> In our case, the remote server runs amanda, and we want to use amanda's
> power to restore files selectively -- yet don't give away our privacy.
> (We are, in fact, the administrators, not the end users, and we are
> trying to offer good quality backups with good privacy).
>
> Rsync seems to come quite close -- so close that I am tempted to write a
> shell script. The implementation I am thinking of is quite inelegant:
> keep a "shadow" copy of the source files (encrypted using pgp),   rsync
> the shadow directory and the destination.
>
> Are there ways to hook into rsync and preprocess the file before it is
> checksummed and sent  over? Are there other alternatives? (hopefully
> more elegant than maintaining a shadow copy of all the files!).
>
> There's an "GPG and Rsync" thread describing almost exactly what we want
>
<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=adkpb7%242t6v%24
1%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUT
F-8%26q%3Drsync%2Bencrypted%26spell%3D1>
>
> And also rsync-backup seems to be almost there -- but things seem to be
> happening at the server end.
> http://www.stearns.org/rsync-backup/
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
>
> martin
>
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