transferring large encrypted images.

2015-10-13 Thread Xen
about how long it takes. But I'm sending it over with scp (pscp) because for some reason rsync is also rather slow here (maybe it's my computer). Scp has no partial option (how silly) but I can just rsync if it fails. Still, I wonder how other people are doing this, if they do something

Re: transferring large encrypted images.

2015-10-13 Thread Xen
Paolo Bolzoni schreef: Why are you encrypting the files and not the filesystem and the channel? Because of what the other person mentioned. If anything anywhen gets compromised, people may have access to the filesystem(s) and the channel(s) before they get access to the file. That is to

Re: transferring large encrypted images.

2015-10-13 Thread Xen
Selva Nair schreef: If the backup is from an encrypted volume to another, depending on the scheme used, you could arrange rsync to see only decrypted data (with the transport protected by, say, ssh): for example, both destination and source using eCryptfs could have the decrypted volumes mounte

Re: Fwd: transferring large encrypted images.

2015-10-14 Thread Xen
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Selva Nair wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Xen wrote: Sure if the files are small and not encrypted. Or, not constantly changing (with their encryption). Not so. For small file there is no advantage as any change may change the whole file. Its for large files