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Any opinions about rclone? It seems to be fine for my mediocre backup needs

• cyphar 7y ago
  rclone is fine (in fact I use rclone with restic to synchronise my restic backup repository on BackBlaze B2) but it doesn't encrypt or deduplicate your backups -- it's just a synchronisation tool like rsync.
  • always4getpass 7y ago
    What about its 'crypt' encryption backend? Afaik it uses scrypt which was designed for tarsnap
    • cyphar 7y ago
      Ah, I wasn't aware it had an encryption backend. Just looking at the documentation I'm quite worried -- why on earth is there an "obfuscate" mode? I would suggest using restic. It doesn't have any weird modes, it simply encrypts everything and there isn't any weird need to specify (for instance) that you want things like metadata or filenames encrypted. Also backups are deduplicated using content-defined-chunking -- giving you pretty massive storage savings. If you really need rclone since it supports some specific feature of your backend -- restic supports using rclone as a synchronisation backend (or you can do what I do, which is to batch-upload your local restic backup every day).
      • namibj 7y ago
        It's a choice between plaintext filenames or no plaintext filenames. You might want to crypt your nudes, but still access normal pictures unencrypted through the provider's web interface.