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How secure is my local backup drive with ssfhs?
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is there any reason in particular that you are using both SSHFS and rsync? Rsync supports sftp which runs over an ssh connection via
rsync -e ssh source dstUser@dstHost:/pathif you are only using the sshfs system to allow a local ssh directory on your system to use with rsync, you could likely skip that entire part and just use rsync.
LinuxConfig.org has a pretty decent page on it
The only reason is that I am a noob ๐ Thanks, I will take at look at this!
We were/are all noobs at something at some point in our lives. I've had a computer in front of me since the mid 70's, and I'm still a noob. Learning is one of the bigger draws to this whole scene to me. There is always room to learn, because there are always different approaches to the same problem.
hey everyone gotta learns somewhere, and defo don't expect you'll ever stop learning on this adventure. That's part of what makes this hobby fun!
Wow, I just used this tutorial. rsync is amazing, and this actually makes everything so much easier. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
you're welcome, glad it worked for your use case.
Rsync is an insane tool when you look at it, half the flags you wouldn't even know existed unless you were looking for them.
Rsync can. For instance, rename files instead of deleting them, so that your backup keeps old files in case they need recovering.
It can also make hard links to existing files so they you can create multiple backup directories that share unchanged files to save space.
Also check out rclone, a similar tool with a focus on supporting many target types, plus it can encrypt a remote location, then mount that backup to access the decrypted files.