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Tombsshfs
If you want to use a remote server to store your personal data safely on a tomb, sshfs can help you. Indeed, an ssh server is one of the most common services in a server and sshfs allows you to mount the remote filesystem on your pc via ssh.
- Easy to set-up, for syncing tomb between computers
- Much faster that TombDropbox : if you change one byte in a 1GB tomb, dropbox will re-send the whole file, which is very slow. sshfs will just send the differences, so this is surprisingly fast
- NOT good for sharing in real-time: the same tomb cannot be opened by two different computers in read/write mode
Just copy your tomb on the remote server via scp:
scp /path/to/yourthings.tomb [email protected]:/
Install Sshfs on your system, for example if you use debian do:
sudo apt-get install sshfs
Now you are ready to mount locally the remote file system:
sshfs -o allow_root [email protected]:/ /local/mountpoint/
It's important to add the -o allow_root option because otherwise root will not have permissions to read in the remote filesystem.
Last but not least open your tomb:
tomb open /local/mountpoint/yourthings.tomb -k /path/to/key
That's all folks!