[Digikam-users] Re: More on backup

[Milan Knížek]

Paul Verizzo píše v St 23. 02. 2011 v 10:45 -0500:
> Looks like I struck a chord!
> 
You really did! (I am backing up manually once a month to external HDDs,
one remains at my home, the other one at work).

> One thing that Carbonite does, which I did not want to get into detail 
> previously, is by default erase your files if they no longer exist after 
> 30 days.  There is a "Freeze Your Backup" option, but I've not used it 

That is quite important, too.


On another note: their security page
http://www.carbonite.com/en/online-backup-software/secure-data-backup
states that the data is encrypted before transfer and remain encrypted
on their servers.

The security paper reads: "To further protect our customer’s data,
encryption keys are never stored with customer data." Which can be read
as "the keys are backed up to the provider and hopefully kept separately
from customer data."

Hence a user keen on privacy would probably have to encrypt data locally
before running the proprietary sw for backup, wouldn't she? That could
prove unbearable with 300 GB+ volume of data...

Some linux friendly solution with on-the-fly encryption per single file
using keys generated and stored transparently and kept only at the
user's computer would be great, imho.


Regards,
Milan
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http://www.milan-knizek.net/