[ale] Personal Backup Strategies?

[rs at ale.spam.futz.org (Robert)]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:08:03AM -0500, Ed Cashin wrote:
> With encfs, I think the norm is for the files to be encrypted,
> and encfs gives you a decrypted filesystem "view" of those files.
> By "norm", I mean that if somebody boots your computer but
> can't run encfs with your password, they see the encrypted files.

yep, that is the norm..

> But I'd like the opposite: A filesystem that gives me an encrypted
> view of the files that are lying unencrypted on my Linux host or
> MacBook.  That way I can rdiff-backup the encrypted view to an
> less trusted remote location, and I can continue to use my filesystem
> as it is (only sensitive files are encrypted) for normal use.

encfs will do this too.. see the --reverse option in the man page.

Robert