Duplicity - Cloud Backup with Encryption.

Posted by Qadir Kalhoro
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Jan 14, 2017
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On the possibilities of using cloud computing storage for backup we have already been contacted. Archiving and backup storage is carried out using a wide variety of software; on our website published a list of such programs, which is regularly updated.

Recently we learned about another interesting tool - Duplicity. Duplicity is not only backs up data and downloads it to a local or remote file server, thus providing additional protection.

Why do I need encryption?

Backup, as we know, it is necessary to ensure the preservation of the most valuable and important information. In itself, saving the backup to a remote storage (even in the safe) is not sufficient to protect it. The fact that absolutely all of our information is vulnerable and can be used against us, today, does not mean just lazy. In the news now and again there are reports of tricks that cybercriminals use to gain access to classified documents. Six months ago, anyone not previously known US citizen Edward Snowden has caused a considerable stir all over the world, describing how security services use technology to spy on people.

Of course, all roasted details replicated journalists need, they say, divide by ten. Nevertheless, the fact remains that there are many different ways in which an attacker can gain access to sensitive data. In this situation, an effective measure of protection can be encrypted most of these data: they are protected by a code word, or key, and access to them can only get those users who know the code word.
Of course, an attacker could, for example, choose a password and download an encrypted file from a remote repository.

But if he does not know the code word, open the file he did not succeed. On the selection of the code word it may take more than one year.

Duplicity supports a variety of protocols to connect to the file server: SSH / SCP, FTP, HSI, WebDAV, Tahoe-LAFS and Amazon S3. With support for OpenStack Swift is somewhat more complicated.
The official man-page indicated that it requires additional modules and plug-ins, but not given detailed advice on how to install and configure. Below, we will discuss how to "make friends» Duplicity our vault.

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