One thing: I recently saw a quite interesting video about GPG (https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-11-05-ad...gnupg.html) and the presenter stated that one should not backup ~/.gnupg/random_seed if one was interested in keeping the own communications secure.

So I opened all my backups, deleted random_seed from ~/.gnupg/.

My backup process is quite simple-it backs up the files that were changed since the last backup (daily) (uses stat --format="%Y", not a checksum, I think it's faster and makes it easier for also backing up new files) and a full backup every beginning of the month. That makes the resulting files smaller and still provides a comfortable fallback in case anything goes wrong.

I should start copying my files to a remote host, until now I have been copying my backups on an external HDD and an USB-stick every 2 months or so. That's a bit careless, but my important projects related to programming are on github anyway.

If I started anew, I would encrypt my harddrive from the beginning, make encrypted backups (using GPG) and simply backup my encrypted files on dropbox or something like that. It would not be 100% privacy oriented, but more comfortable than my current solution. Also, I should use an existing solution (I did not do enough research about that, could anyone give me a recommendation for a stable solution?). But now, everything is working fine (and I already used my backups to restore files) and simple.

My current backup script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pranom.../master/bu

cgdc (for copying changed files): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pranom...aster/cgdc

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Update: I considered this one: https://github.com/Pricetx/backup but unfortunately it seems to keep passwords in plaintext in a configuration file https://github.com/Pricetx/backup/blob/m...backup.cfg instead of using a password manager command.

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Update 2: Or maybe is there a venti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venti) version for unix?