https://play.datalude.com/blog/2009/06/dropbox-for-offsite-backup/ Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight. Tue, 05 Apr 2022 09:49:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://play.datalude.com/blog/2009/06/dropbox-for-offsite-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:36:37 +0000 http://play.datalude.com/blog/?p=150#comment-81 Hi Gorgonzo.
Of course, I wouldn't recommend storing sensitive files on any service which didn't use encryption – I alluded to that in the post.
I did try wuala before I tried dropbox, and as I use Linux it was still very much in beta and just didn't work for me at the time. There was no gui, and a lot of tinkering with the command line, which although I'm happy to do myself, I can't recommend to other people. Perhaps they have got things working better for the linux client now …
But if you wanted to use Dropbox for sensitive files, in the same way as Wuala, that would be pretty easy: You'd just have to mount the Dropbox directory using encfs, so the copy which is synced to their server is the encrypted one. Maybe I'll look into this sometime.
Thanks for the comments.

]]> https://play.datalude.com/blog/2009/06/dropbox-for-offsite-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:43:54 +0000 http://play.datalude.com/blog/?p=150#comment-80 I would NOT reommend a service, which does not encryptz your files on the CLIENT! The only service known to me that DOES it the right way is wuala.org

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