There’s a variety of strategies for backing up your data and no single solution is perfect for everyone. Some people may use commercial services like Jungle Disk, Mozy, or Carbonite. Other’s may choose to use services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and tools such as Duplicity. Whatever your preference, the ultimate goal is to protect your data against loss, theft, and natural disasters. In this post, we’ll cover how you can implement encrypted offsite backups using Duply, Duplicity, SSHFS, and Rsync. (more…)