Technical Stuff

Rather than encrypted every backup file individually I find it useful to just put an ecryptfs overlay on a couple of directories and just write directly to them letting ecrypt take care of the encryption. In this example, I have a local drive that I write my daily incremental gnu tar file to.  I then rsync that directory's contents to a mirror directory house on the IT microsoft network drive.  This code snipet mounts the 2 ecrypt directories.  I run this after rebooting my box since I don't want  to store the passphrase anywhere. ECRYPT_OPTIONS="key=passphrase,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=32,ecryptfs_passthrough=n,ecryptfs_enable_filename_crypto=n" sudo mount -t ecryptfs /scratch/myuser/encrypted /scratch/myuser/encrypted                                   -o "${ECRYPT_OPTIONS}" || exit 4 sudo mount -t ecryptfs /mnt/dos/home/myuser/MyDocuments/encrypted /mnt/dos/home/myuser/MyDocuments/encrypted -o "${ECRYPT_OPTIONS}" || exit 5

To see what you are configured for now:     xdg-settings get default-web-browser Then to find that file:     locate `xdg-settings get default-web-browser` For me that was     /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop I started with that file and edited so it called chrome the way I do (I run multiple sessions of chrome and wanted a default open to go to a specific one.     cp /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop  ~/.local/share/applications/custom-google-chrome.desktop Edit that file to your liking and then set xdg (NO PATH to the file)   xdg-settings set default-web-browser custom-google-chrome.desktop Now test   xdg-open https://www.google.com