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

[Nicolas Jungers]

On 04/06/2010 10:32 PM, 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).

I don't know for de-duplication, but for encryption the filesystem 
solution falls a bit short.

Block device encryption doesn't allow to rsync the backup of site and 
cryptfs doesn't support spare files (nor do rdiff-backup, but that shall 
be addressed soon, right?).  My memory is a bit fuzzy but I think I 
selected cryptfs because it's the only solutions which (1) allows access 
to either the crypt or uncrypt version of the files and (2) may leave 
the metadata uncrypted.

So yes, it's usable, just not optimal.

Nicolas