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by dotancohen 3545 days ago
I see lots of great suggestions for backup hosts and methods, but I don't see anybody addressing encrypting said backups. I'm uncomfortable with rsync.net / Backblaze / etc having access to my data. What are some good ways to encrypt these multiple-GB backups before uploading them to a third-party backup server?
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ing33k 3545 days ago
Check this https://github.com/backup/backup
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dotancohen 3545 days ago
That looks really nice, thanks. However, I've sworn off Ruby as installing and maintaining the whole Gems stack is such a pain. I'd rather write a shell script, or conjure up some Python.
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dotancohen 3545 days ago
Just to kid myself, I ran `sudo gem install backup` on my CentOS 7 desktop. The CPU has been pegged for over a minute, I have no idea what it's doing. It's not using much memory, and I'm not sure if it is making or hanging on network requests.

EDIT: After a few minutes of warming the CPU, Ruby failed but at least with an informative error message.

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ing33k 3541 days ago
as a matter of choice ,I always use rvm to install ruby. Never faced any issue related to installation.
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