Re: [Fwd: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Restarting development]

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 06:32:04AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote:
> But I would say on encryption and de duplication - why not leave that to the
> filesystem - stay focused on what rdiff-backup does best - differential
> backups, you can get de duplication, compression and encryption file systems
> why not leave it to them to do that (well atleast for linux and any os that
> accepts fuse filesystem).

For encryption, one could do something like encfs (perhaps over sshfs).
That's pretty cool.

There's a win for deduplication at the rdiff-backup level, though, because
you can tranfer over the wire _after_ deduplication. One could of course
rdiff-backup to a target deduplication filsystem, sync or snapshot that
filesystem, and rsync the underlying store, but that has its own
disadvantages.

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