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On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:54 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:05 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> > > - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote |
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> > > backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step. |
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> > That's why I use rdiff-backup. |
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> rdiff-backup isn't really suitable for offsite backups because it uses no |
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> compression, making the space and bandwidth requirements double those of |
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> other methods. It also uses no encryption. |
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It uses compression (gzip), but only for increments. |
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