So, I\’m a big fan of backups. I\’m a bigger fan of differential backups. My personal favorite method of doing them is using the rdiff-backup script on a linux box. What happens when you have sensitive information that you need to remotely backup. Do you upload a new encrypted file of everything every night? Do you have to download the whole file to get to one file? If you were using an encrypted tarball or sometype of encrypted loopback file, like truecrypt, then the answer would be yes. That is bad if you have a slow link. One way to solve that is to do encryption on each file. To do this we can use EncFS and sshfs. Both of these are in the default repositories for the current ubuntu versions.
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