Add encryption

[JohnL]

Wish List:

Having installed Ubuntu 9.10 from the Live CD, I noticed it now includes the option to encrypt the 'home' and 'swap' folders; a really good idea for laptops. Using the encrypt option, I'm now using BiT to backup my encrypted 'home' onto a NAS storage device in an unencrypted state; this bothers me greatly. If I'm encrypting my 'home' folder on my laptop (for good reasons) the the resulting copy of it on my NAS device should also be encrypted. I need BiT to include an option to encrypt the backup data.

JohnL

[Dan (danleweb)]

BIT only backup files/folders as they are. If it read them decrypted it will backup them decrypted. If it read them encrypted it will backup the encrypted.
But nothing stops you to have an encrypted file system on your NAS server.

[Dan (danleweb)]

You can use encfs to encrypt a folder and then backup encrypted folder.

[Arek Olek (arekolek)]

I guess you could backup /home/.ecryptfs/$USER/.Private as it is where your data stays encrypted.

[ceg (ceg)]

With duplicity as backend, encryption features are included, besides bringing incremental rdiff-backups and network support http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

[Anders Wallenquist (aw)]

Dan: I think encfs are a good idea, but if that should work as smooth as other Back in time features it would be built in as an option

[Mr.Gosh (mr-gosh)]

This is indeed an important feature.

Déjà Dup is not able to restore single files within the GUI and backuing up the encfs folder wouldnt make it possible to restore an explicit file, because you are not able to see the actual file names...

So An integration of encfs or so into backintime would be nice!

[Brendan_P (brendan-p)]

+1 for Duplicity type encryption for BIT. Real need for this as backing up to non-encrypted location.

[JohnL (jwillar)]

try using Deja Dup, it has encryption and dead simple to use.

John
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"GUI make easy tasks easy, CLI make difficult tasks possible"

On 01/06/2012 03:56 AM, Brendan_P wrote:
> +1 for Duplicity type encryption for BIT. Real need for this as backing
> up to non-encrypted location.
>

[Brendan_P (brendan-p)]

For sure, thanks John I have looked at that. But you don't have the ability
to revert a single file as easily as in BIT which is great in this regard.

I am looking at using it in the short-term till (hopefully) this feature is
added but unfortunately there is a big in the precise package, so stuck
with rsync'ing me private directory to the backup server for now. Which is
fine, but really miss the features of BIT.

All the best
Brendan

On 8 January 2012 03:43, JohnL <email address hidden> wrote:

> try using Deja Dup, it has encryption and dead simple to use.
>
> John
> <email address hidden>
> "GUI make easy tasks easy, CLI make difficult tasks possible"
>
>
> On 01/06/2012 03:56 AM, Brendan_P wrote:
> > +1 for Duplicity type encryption for BIT. Real need for this as backing
> > up to non-encrypted location.
> >
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> Title:
> Add encryption
>
> Status in Back In Time:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Wish List:
>
> Having installed Ubuntu 9.10 from the Live CD, I noticed it now
> includes the option to encrypt the 'home' and 'swap' folders; a really
> good idea for laptops. Using the encrypt option, I'm now using BiT to
> backup my encrypted 'home' onto a NAS storage device in an unencrypted
> state; this bothers me greatly. If I'm encrypting my 'home' folder on
> my laptop (for good reasons) the the resulting copy of it on my NAS
> device should also be encrypted. I need BiT to include an option to
> encrypt the backup data.
>
> JohnL
>
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[Mr.Gosh (mr-gosh)]

What does this mean? "Fix Committed"?
Is backintime now capable of encrypted backups?

[Germar (germar)]

Yes. The next version will come with two new modes:
- 'Local encrypted' will mount a local folder with encfs and sync into this. You only need to set up a password. The rest (creating the encrypted folder and mounting) is done by BackinTime. Quite simple.

- 'SSH encrypted' will mount '/' with 'encfs --reverse' and rsync will sync the encrypted view of '/' to a remote host over ssh. In BackinTime you will still see the plain version of your backup. This is a lot more complex because all in-/exclude paths and all other pathes need to be encrypted before running tasks with this. This is why I added an experimental warning to that mode for now. But it does work great and it is ready for testing.

Regards,
Germar

[Mr.Gosh (mr-gosh)]

that sounds great, espacially for slow nas systems with less cpu power, so we can enrypt on the fast local machine....
perfect! thx!!!!!

[Brendan_P (brendan-p)]

Great work all, thank you. Looking forward to the new release!

[ML (0cs935kb517wwmwa7m9428daadkye-m9u2-wz6bkyhu4uqpfausw0ege9b0y33eg)]

Is it still out? I'm not abel to find the Mode 'Local Encrypted'. I only see Local and SSH. The Informationpanel shows me Version 1.0.23, but the sources and the manual update says that I'm having the actual Version....

[Germar (germar)]

This is not released yet. I wanted to test it for a while before releasing. But all works well so far. So I might ask Dan for a new release soon.

[ML (0cs935kb517wwmwa7m9428daadkye-m9u2-wz6bkyhu4uqpfausw0ege9b0y33eg)]

better good testing as bad release ;-) Thanks!