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		cperciva on May 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid Tarsnap deduplicates first, then it encrypts.

sdfjkl on May 25, 2013 [–]

I see, that makes sense. Any word on how it compares to simply shipping encrypted dumps to S3?

cperciva on May 25, 2013 | [–]

Depends how much tarsnap manages to deduplicate, really.

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