Local compression and encryption for backups

wildest_jjk · 4 May 2014 at 12:50

Hi guys,

I am currently looking to cloud based backup and was wondering what I should use for compression and client-side encryption?

My plan is to backup locally to my server first, encrypt and compress etc. Then backup this to the cloud.

Thanks

Craig321 · 4 May 2014 at 13:01

Have you looked at CrashPlan? http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Configuring/Security_Encryption_And_Password_Options

It won't do exactly what you're after, but it does encrypt your files on their servers.

[Edit]
In fact, CrashPlan does local backups as well so it may well encrypt locally if you want.

[Edit2]
Just tested and you can run a local backup and encrypt it. So basically you'd have two backup jobs - one that goes up to the CrashPlan servers and the other goes to your local disk. Both encrypted.

wildest_jjk · 4 May 2014 at 13:38

Craig321 said:
Have you looked at CrashPlan? http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Latest/Configuring/Security_Encryption_And_Password_Options

It won't do exactly what you're after, but it does encrypt your files on their servers.

[Edit]
In fact, CrashPlan does local backups as well so it may well encrypt locally if you want.

[Edit2]
Just tested and you can run a local backup and encrypt it. So basically you'd have two backup jobs - one that goes up to the CrashPlan servers and the other goes to your local disk. Both encrypted.

Thanks for your response! I have had a look at the local crashplan install but I was trying to see if there were alternatives really. My plan is to backup to a VPS, so I wouldn't be using the crashplan cloud service.

I was hoping there may be some open source alternatives. I still get kind of worried using cloud based providers software to encrypt my files. That is probably stupid but there must be some others. I have also looked at 7-Zip just for simple encryption and compression, then I could use SFTP or something to upload to a VPS?

Thanks again though

Rabtech · 4 May 2014 at 14:16

Duplicati, free and supports encryption, local, remote or cloud backups etc.

wildest_jjk · 4 May 2014 at 14:41

Rabtech said:
Duplicati, free and supports encryption, local, remote or cloud backups etc.

That looks just what I am after! Has anyone used Duplicati before? I can't seem to find that many reviews on it.

Thanks!

Rabtech · 4 May 2014 at 15:04

I've been using it myself for well over a year, once setup it just works with minimal fuss.

KIA · 4 May 2014 at 17:28

wildest_jjk said:
That looks just what I am after! Has anyone used Duplicati before? I can't seem to find that many reviews on it.

Thanks!

Yes. It's solid.

Craig321 · 4 May 2014 at 21:50

Does it do incremental merging by any chance so I can do one full backup and then it'll manage the space the subsequent incremental use?