i'm considering prospects for offsite backup. your comments are most welcome. what options are available and sensible? requirements specify metadata, filenames, and paths should be encrypted prior to sending to the offsite archive. encrypted communication together with encrypted storage might satisfy. perhaps it's silly picky to point out there's a moment in between when it's unencrypted. an attractive solution would be a vps with mega cheap storage. but i doubt they can come anywhere near the capacity and prices of the likes of rsync.net. or can they? backuppc is doing well on-site. i like that it does not re-transfer files already backed up, even when doing a full backup. however it must run on the backup storage server. i doubt that's possible with services like rsync.net. or is it? a strategy that comes to mind is to rsync the backuppc storage heirarchy (can omit the ?(c)pool). last i knew, asking rsync to mirror such a sea of hardlinks caused it to demand obscene amounts of ram. who knows, might work, might not. newer versions of rsync might do better, i dunno yet. duplicity certainly is popular, and provides encryption. i doubt it is as efficient about bandwidth, or storage, as backuppc, particularly regarding full backups. or is it? if there's a trove somewhere that addresses such questions, please point. tia, greg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20181112/92453361/attachment.html>