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Re: [Monotone-devel] Supporting Encryption
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Supporting Encryption |
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Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:40:58 -0800 |
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 03:55:48PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
> I'm asking because I was thinking about using monotone to
> implement off-site backups: A lot of friends of mine have
> disk space en masse and fast DSL lines, so we talked about
> copying each others important data to each others machines
> as a backup copy, in case the whole house burns down or
> something. The problem is, of course, that I want my data to
> be _encrypted_ when I copy it to other people's hard disk --
> friends or not. But creating a huge tar archive, encrypting
> it, and rsync'ing it hence and forth wastes a lot of
> bandwidth, because minor changes in the data cause the whole
> file to change dramatically -- effectively disabling
> incremental transfers.
I dunno, maybe Monotone could do more here, but I'd guess that a
better tool for solving your problem is
http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/
-- Nathaniel
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