This is my setup for encrypted offsite-backups to a nextcloud instance

1. install rclone
you need at least version 1.65.0. See https://rclone.org/downloads/ for up-to-date instructions.

2. configure rclone
you could use the rclone config command. That starts an interactive configuration menu which will create an rclone.conf.

Or you can pick the rclone.conf from this repository and adjust it yourself. The result will be the same.

Replace the following things in the rclone.conf:

• nextcloud-url
  Path to your nextcloud instance
• user
  Your nextcloud username
• target-folder
  Path to the nextcloud-folder where the backup should live
• obscured-nextcloud-password
  The password of the nextcloud user, but in obscured
• obscured-encryption-key The password used for encryption, but in obscured. Create a strong one, preferably without symbols that break the rclone obscure usage
• obscured-encryption-salt salt for the encryption, but in obscured. In this case, this is effectively a second password, and you need both. Create a strong one, preferably without symbols that break the rclone obscure usage

How to obscure passwords
See https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_obscure/

echo "the-password" | rclone obscure -

configure backup script
The backup.sh has 3 functions. They are explained in the script.

If you want to use the archive-function you neet do adjust the base target-path from /fat-vault to wherever you want to locally archive your data to

Just add all the backup, backup_system and archive commands you need. Examples are in the script aswell.

You should probably create the /var/log/backup/-folder, as the script might fail if it doesn't exist

configure crontab
See the crontab-file for an example usage. You can of course also use the command there to manually start the backup.

logs
logs will end up in /var/log/backup/. There will be two files. One is the log-output from rclone, the other one is the stdout from the backup-script.

mount backup
See https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/

sudo mkdir /mnt/offsite-backup
sudo rclone mount backup:/ /mnt/offsite-backup