It's nice that with github and similar services, I can backup my open-source projects (using 'git push'). With private data, I have some reservations though. I'd prefer that my repos are encrypted on the server (I don't think they do that at github, no?). I know that one of the alternatives is to rent a VPS, set up an encrypted partition on it, and back up using git+ssh. But I wonder if normal (non-root) SSH accounts can work as well? I'm thinking of two alternatives:
1) 'git push' to a local copy, do per-file encryption on the local copy, and then rsync local copy to server via ssh.
2) set up a local encrypted partition on a loop device on a file (say encrypted.img), 'git push' to the local copy on the encrypted partition, then rsync encrypted.img to the server.
I'm not sure on how to do #1, and I'm afraid #2 will be significantly less efficient, data-transfer-wise.
Note that this is mainly for backup purposes only. I prefer to update the backup on a per-commit basis (so I would invoke the update backup process using git's post-commit hook).
