How to make one or more remotes work as the "backup" for a remote?

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1

I would like the "backup" remote automatically sync, but it is not possible for an encrypted config.
my current workaround is to mount them and then use rsync to do it, but it exposes the content, is there any feature that I could use to do it?

2

Sorry not clear at all what you want.

Could you give some example what exactly you want to achieve to clarify?

3

Hi,

Are you referring to the fact that rsync does not encrypt data? You can create an encrypted remote in rclone that will do end to end encryption.

Then you can combine that with Windows task scheduler.

Does that help or make sense?

4

like for remoteA, I would like remoteB and remoteC serve as its backup, just like rclone sync, but since I am using an encrypted config, an cronjob is not idea.

5

that's not what I want. It basically is syncing, I tried to make rclone serve webdav, but found no good tool to do webdav sync, syncthing require mounted remote, which is tedious. Since rclone support rclone sync, I thought there must be some approach make it persistant, not requiring manaul execution.

6

Why not? Use your OS secure vault to store and use required secrets.

7

for a privacy maniac, I just don't trust vps provider. I find using vault is nothing different from an plain-text config.

8

but you are using it already - encrypted config is nothing else but primitive secure vault....

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  1. is the config file encrypted
    or
  2. the remoteA is encrypted.

if 2, then https://rclone.org/crypt/#backing-up-an-encrypted-remote

why not?