It's still a fair bit from being the cheapest UNIX backup (that also does client side encryption).
Crashplan, Spideroak and Wuala (for 100GB and under) are a bit cheaper ( http://skeptu.com/tarsnap/100gb ).
It has a nice CLI, however.
Crashplan, Spideroak and Wuala (for 100GB and under) are a bit cheaper ( http://skeptu.com/tarsnap/100gb ).
It has a nice CLI, however.
CrashPlan and co. are somehow secure, but still not really open about their crypto (and some of them use quite weird one).
I'd much rather trust my backups to tarsnap, which is not in beta. Furthermore, and perhaps even more importantly, tarsnap offers support which duplicity does not. When my hard drives decide to die, I really want someone who I can contact if there are any issues restoring from backups.
Unfortunately, it's barely usable due to recovery issues. You can't mount CrashPlan as a filesystem (well, without ton of reverse engineering), so that's not an option unless you're satisfied with all-or-nothing recovery without possibility to pick and restore just certain files of interest.
You could probably also hack up something to figure out locally what encrypted filename corresponds to what regular filename and go fish for the encrypted filename in CrashPlan. It will probably be clunky though.
We were talking about eCryptfs/encFS-encrypted copy, where filenames are (usually) encrypted. That means navigating around names like `l00Dqf,A49VqDd8AveLMrbBE` or `qR,bmE-73cA2H6wOxZxlKSwD`.
The proxy is run locally and all encryption happens locally, so it's end-to-end encrypted.