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Ask HN: Any Encrypted Notes Backup?

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I’m keeping notes in .txt files. Would be great to have something watching a folder of files and on each change uploading a compressed encrypted version to several clouds. I figured that I mustn’t be the first looking for something like that. Please recommend simple open source tools that do something like the above.

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Have you checked out rclone? Local encryption, targets almost any cloud storage provider, and open source.

Syncthing might also be part of a solution to this with the Untrusted Devices feature [1].

0: https://rclone.org/

1: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html

Thanks! Another useful tool that can be added into a solution:

https://github.com/getsops/sops

Or backup your text files with backup software such as restic: encrypted, with snapshots, sent to several backends.

Cryptomator is ok too, but has no snapshots and cloud integration.

Good point about having a history of changes. It could be interesting to have a git repo as one of the backup backends.

Cryptomator[0] hooked up to Dropbox.

[0] https://cryptomator.org/

Yes this seems like a robust solution that is very close to what I want. I think that in this case DropBox can be replaced with RClone that syncs to a few different clouds in a loop once every say 10 sec - from a bash script or something. The thing is it’s not only about not uploading your data open to the cloud provider. It’s also about not installing a black box non open source app that is running in the background at all times.

There is an encrypted mode for eMacs org

Thanks! I’m looking for an external utility, so that I could use any editor for the text files. I actually think it shouldn’t be that hard to write a bash script to run some programs to do that. But I prefer a ready solution since it seems such a simple common need

If I recall, the emacs one is a wrapper around pgp encryption. Just automatically uses key when opening and closing the file so you could open with other tools as pgp is a common standard

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