Encrypted back up to SMB and Proton Drive with rclone

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rclone is amazing!

May I ask why you went from a wrapper around restic to rclone and not to restic? My understanding is that rclone doesn't make snapshots, does it?

I use restic (with rclone), which encrypts and handles snapshots automatically. It doesn't work with a pgp key, though, I use a password.

If you want backup, restic is the way to go. Rclone sends your files, it’s not a backup tool. I think it has some kind of versioning, not really a backup feature.

Which is why I ask, since the article is about backups :-)

If you use crypt backend of rclone, you don’t need end to end encryption of proton.

They know:

> A file secured in this way can be stored anywhere.

They just chose Proton Drive as the remote.

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