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Ask HN: Any Encrypted Notes Backup?

4 points by kosolam ↗ HN
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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totetsu
There is an encrypted mode for eMacs org
kosolam
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
totetsu
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
spansoa
Cryptomator[0] hooked up to Dropbox.

[0] https://cryptomator.org/

kosolam
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.
aborsy
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.

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