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backup2l configuration: encrypted backups in the cloud

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Since 2021 I switched from backup2l to el-backup because I don’t love it any more.

My backup2l configuration

The scope

  1. My backups must be available from everywhere. This is why I use public cloud services (Russian Yandex Disk or Swiss pCloud) that can be mounted in linux using standard open-source utilities. (I will probably switch to freenet at some point.)
  2. I assume that cloud system administrators are my enemies working for Evil Corporations and Governments hunting for my precious files; so no unencrypted files are allowed in any cloud.
  3. File names as well as their modification times is part of my private information that I am not going to reveal.

There are two types of files on my computer:

  1. Text files which might be edited several times a day. I use this elisp code to synchronize these on different hosts.
  2. Everything else which is rarely edited.

This concept might not work for

  • artists who edit their images as often as I edit my text files, and for
  • people using WYSWYG editors like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or Microsoft PowerPoint on a daily basis. (Thanks god I am not using this kind of software.)

I archive important files using backup2l patched with this patch using this configuration file. (Hopefully some day my patch will be used in the official backup2l release.)

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backup2l configuration: encrypted backups in the cloud