HOW TO: Encrypt files with rclone crypt
ajkis opened this issue · 2 comments
Before creating new rclone crypt make sure you have rclone remote ( Amazon Drive, Google Drive etc...)
To create rclone remote type:
rclone config
Press n for New Remote
Set name eg: acd ( for amazon drive )
Choose type of drive ( Amazon Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox etc... )
Leave client_id, client_secret empty.
Proceed with authorization.
Once you have your rclone remote you can proceed with creation of crypt drive.
rclone config
Press n for New Remote
Press 5 for Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
Set name eg: acdcrypt
Set path eg your original remote name + folder where encrypted files will be acd:/crypt
Press 2 for standard encryption ( filenames and content )
Press Y to set your own password ( do not forget it )
Press Y to set your own salt password ( different from previous one, dont forget it )
Set 128 for password strength
Confirm passwords and remote.
Now you can use rclone copy/sync/move commands to upload your files to encrypte drive.
Example:
rclone move /source path/ acdcrypt:/ -c --no-traverse --transfers=300 --checkers=300 --delete-after --log-file=/var/log/rclone-upload.log
The source path can be anything eg local files or existing mount ( for example if you want to switch from encfs encryption to crypt just set source path to match your encfs unencrypted drive ) ... if you are switching from encfs I would suggest usage of rclone copy:
rclone copy /source path/ acdcrypt:/ -c --no-traverse --transfers=300 --checkers=300 --log-file=/var/log/rclone-upload.log
To mount your new acd crypt mount use:
rclone mount --allow-non-empty --allow-other acdcrypt: /path/acdcrypt/ &
Hi there. I noticed you Switched from ENCFS to Crypt from Rclone. Any reasons why? How is the performance compared to ENCFS?
Streaming wise more or less same, however crypt is by far more efficient when it comes to writing data as there is zero disk I/O's since encryption happens in memory during uploading.
p.s. The whole setup is much cleaner since you dont have any encrypted files on disk and you only need 1 mount.