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Secure backup alternative? (beehaw.org)
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Can anyone recommend a secure, open source, offsite backup setup with client-side encryption? The way I'm set up now, I have certain folders on my QNAP NAS automatically backup to Backblaze. Which is fine, except that the QNAP encryption scheme is proprietary and Backblaze is also proprietary (I've had a good experience with the latter, tho). I find the QNAP in general kind of hard to use, but it's what I've got at the moment. I was contemplating using Cryptomator, either with BB or something else, though I'm not exactly sure how to set it up. So what do people think? Would another setup be slightly better? If it ain't broke . . . ?

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

restic. I've been using it for years, and specifically with B2 for at least 2.

  • Client-side encryption, by default
  • Single executable
  • Stable format
  • Backups are incremental by default
  • Backups are mountable (via fuse), so it's easy to grab specific files from a snapshot

It really is a fantastic, free, OSS program.

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

We switched to it for backups at work about a couple years ago too, and agree on the assessment

[–] dax@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

For any of those curious, it seems to use the crypto/aes package in restic/crypto.go.

[–] smorks@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

there's also rustic, which is currently in beta i believe, but it's basically the rust equivalent of restic.

[–] gloating_swann@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

By it you mean Cryptomator, yes?