How would or do you backup your home server? I don’t have enough physical storage (for now) at home to store some backups, so I want to upload it to the cloud. Of course I want the backup to be encrypted, but I don’t want to enter the password every time by server does a backup. I am currently using borg on my PC and do it manually. How do I create a encrypted backup without entering the key manually? Do I hardcode it somewhere? Don’t really like that. I am also fine with trying other backup software.

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    I have a storagebox at hetzner. My script does:

    • Mount the storagebox over sshfs with public key file
    • Mount a gocryptfs folder, with supplied key on local file
    • Rsync my stuff to the encrypted folder
    • Unmounts in reverse order

    I can access the storagebox by password, too. So this is my disaster recovery in case my house burns down with all my devices. I’ll just buy another laptop the next day, and me and the Mrs can admire all my code and our wedding videos within a few hours.