Déc 202025
For near 20 years, i am backuping my photos onto my synology (ds10x, ds20x, and now ds21x).
The risk is to lose them all because of crash or during a migration from one disk/model to another disk/model.
I decided to use rclone (running on my synology) to backup this local storage to a remote storage.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Synology NAS │
│------------------------------------------│
│ /volume1/photo │
│ (unencrypted) │
└───────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
│
│ rclone copy / sync
│ (unencrypted)
▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ rclone │
│------------------------------------------│
│ Remote 1 : ovhftp: │
│ → FTP connection tp OVH │
│ → primary │
│ │
│ Remote 2 : ovhcrypt: │
│ → crypt layer │
│ → AES‑256 CTR + scrypt │
│ → content crypted │
│ → based on : ovhftp:/backup │
│ │
│ rclone.conf │
│ → contains keys + remotes config │
└───────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
│
│ crypted files
│ (filenames scrambled)
▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ OVH FTP │
│------------------------------------------│
│ /backup │
│ (crypted scrambled) │
│ ex : │
│ 8sd7f9sd7f9sd7f9sd7f9sd7f │
│ 7f8sd9f8sd9f8sd9f8sd9f8sd │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
Some useful commands:
rclone listremotes
rclone lsd ovhftp:/backup
rclone lsd ovhcrypt:
rclone config file
rclone copy /volume1/photo ovhcrypt: --progress
Restore would work as below:
OVH /backup (crypted files)
│
▼
rclone (ovhcrypt:) → automatically decrypt
│
▼
/volume1/photo (unencrypted restored files)
rclone copy ovhcrypt: /volume1/photo --progress