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Or is the word rsunc ? Regardless, a lot of people do not realize that a truecrypt volume, although it is a single encrypted file, can be successfully kept up to date with the rsync tool. This is because the entire file is NOT reorganized every time it is unmounted. Therefore, if you only change a few files in a truecrypt volume, you can rsync it to a remote system in an efficient (changes only) manner.

Just be sure to read about the --checksum option. I personally keep all of my most sensitive files in a single, 4 GB truecrypt volume that I rsync nightly to my offsite backup at rsync.net. They are NOT affiliated with the actual rsync project, but I can't speak highly enough about them. This, and especially this are what sold me over strongspace and exavault.

Or is the word rsunc ? Regardless, a lot of people do not realize that a truecrypt volume, although it is a single encrypted file, can be successfully kept up to date with the rsync tool. This is because the entire file is NOT reorganized every time it is unmounted. Therefore, if you only change a few files in a truecrypt volume, you can rsync it to a remote system in an efficient (changes only) manner.

Just be sure to read about the --checksum option. I personally keep all of my most sensitive files in a single, 4 GB truecrypt volume that I rsync nightly to my offsite backup at rsync.net. They are NOT affiliated with the actual rsync project, but I can't speak highly enough about them. This, and especially this are what sold me over strongspace and exavault.

Or is the word rsunc ? Regardless, a lot of people do not realize that a truecrypt volume, although it is a single encrypted file, can be successfully kept up to date with the rsync tool. This is because the entire file is NOT reorganized every time it is unmounted. Therefore, if you only change a few files in a truecrypt volume, you can rsync it to a remote system in an efficient (changes only) manner.

Just be sure to read about the --checksum option. I personally keep all of my most sensitive files in a single, 4 GB truecrypt volume that I rsync nightly to my offsite backup at rsync.net. They are NOT affiliated with the actual rsync project, but I can't speak highly enough about them. This, and especially this are what sold me over strongspace and exavault.

A lot of people are going to get burned by offsite file storage services - and I place this in two categories:

- people who get burned by AOL/xdrive/Amazon/S3 when the privacy of their data is ruined - either by sharing information to enable advertisements or by rolling over like cowards to any government agency that even picks up the phone

- people who get burned because the wacko distributed custom database-driven filesystem in the sky that they trust their data to has a glitch and goes down for days or weeks if there is ever any significant disruption in Internet connectivity and/or routing.

This is of special importance to me because regulatory concerns _require_ that I store critical data offsite, so I had to bite the bullet ... I'm pleased so far with my choice (rsync.net) for offsite backup of my linux data, but it took a lot of research and a lot of reassurances before I would take the plunge. I concluded that I was far better off with a provider that put my data on real, rational unix filesystems (like exavault, strongspace, rsync.net, etc.) and then the decision came down to who had the most reassuring privacy and search warrant policy.

We'll see...

If you are a technical person and like things to work your way, and not xdrives way or mozys way, rsync.net is the way to go.

They are the only offsite backup provider I have found that supports rdiff-backup and duplicity as well as the normal SSH standards (scp, sftp, rsync).

What really did it for me, though, was this:

http://www.rsync.net/philosophy.html

and _especially this_ :

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

If you are a technical person and like things to work your way, and not xdrives way or mozys way, rsync.net is the way to go.

They are the only offsite backup provider I have found that supports rdiff-backup and duplicity as well as the normal SSH standards (scp, sftp, rsync).

What really did it for me, though, was this:

http://www.rsync.net/philosophy.html

and _especially this_ :

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

How about http://www.rsync.net/?

I have no affiliation with them, and I've never used their service, but it sounds like what you asked for.

Although rsync.net doesn't look like an "e-discovery" provider per se, my own use of their service makes it clear that you could very well use it for this purpose.

Their platform is totally open and totally based on open source (I think they run on FreeBSD, but perhaps it is Solaris) software like rsync, OpenSSL, and apache, etc.

If there is any doubt, their warrant canary seals the deal for me and a lot of other folks I know that use thier service for offsite backups and email storage:

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

Slight OT, but what does the community here make of rsync.net warrant canary

http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

They have a statement, updated weekly, that says that they have never been served a warrant.

Their reasoning is that they can be forced to not inform their userbase that a warrant has been issued, but they believe that they cannot be forced to continue updating the canary page. As such if the page stops updating, we can assume that they either got lazy or were served a warrant.

What I like about these guys, is the use of their canary. When they are forced by the authorities to pass your data, they're probably also forced to keep silent about this.

So what do they do? They send out a weekly 'canary' saying nothing happened. If something DOES happen, they don't send the canary.

They use rsync over ssh:
http://www.rsync.net/
Base rate: $1.80/gb/month
Volume discounts:
25-49GB - 10% Off
50-99GB - 20% Off
100-199GB - 30% Off
200-399GB - 40% Off
400-999GB - 50% Off
1TB+ - 60% Off

You get supposedly unlimited storage, and pay for only what you use.
I haven't actually tried them though.

Their warrant canary is sheer genius. I love these guys!

I'm amazed nobody's mentioned rsync.net so far, particularly on Slashdot. Cheap storage, access via rsync, instructions for mounting it remotely on Linux/FreeBSD (as well as Windows), plus they've given some thought to both the legal and privacy aspects: "rsync.net does not merely recommend that users encrypt their data, but provides resources, tutorials and unlimited technical support for such usage".

I'm amazed nobody's mentioned rsync.net so far, particularly on Slashdot. Cheap storage, access via rsync, instructions for mounting it remotely on Linux/FreeBSD (as well as Windows), plus they've given some thought to both the legal and privacy aspects: "rsync.net does not merely recommend that users encrypt their data, but provides resources, tutorials and unlimited technical support for such usage".