[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers
give you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider’s
backup systems. This tutorial shows how you can use duplicity and
ftplicity to create encrypted (so that nobody with access to the
backup server can read sensitive data in your backups) backups on
the provider’s remote backup server over FTP. ftplicity is a
duplicity wrapper script (provided by the German computer magazine
c’t) that allows us to use duplicity without interaction (i.e., you
do not have to type in any passwords)…”