Re: [Duplicity-talk] Redundancy?

[edgar . soldin]

yeah.. if encryption is not needed btar is a viable option. ..ede

On 24.05.2013 11:52, Mikołaj Czyż wrote:
> Thank you very much for your replies.
> 
> Tahoe-LAFS sure looks interesting (if too complicated for my needs). And I 
> will start testing btar, that looks just like what I need.
> 
> Best.
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <address@hidden 
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>     On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 06:55:24PM +0200, Mikołaj Czyż wrote:
>     > But having one extra volume as a XOR result seems (naively) like not so
>     > complicated idea, doesn't it?
> 
>     Exactly, that's why I implemented it in my case.
> 
>     > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <address@hidden 
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>     >
>     > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 06:43:47PM +0200, Mikołaj Czyż wrote:
>     > > > Thanks. But as duplicity uses checksums extensively, etc. why not 
> add
>     > > some
>     > > > level of redundancy?
>     > > > (on the other hand I believe there must be good reasons not to 
> implement
>     > > it
>     > > > if it is still not there)
>     > >
>     > > In fact I don't use duplicity much; I use mainly a program I wrote,
>     > > 'btar', and
>     > > there I added at least one block of redundancy with XOR. :)
>     > >
>     > > More redundancy is a bit more complicated (requiring lots of memory).
>     > >
>     > > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <
>     > > address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>wrote:
>     > > >
>     > > > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 06:35:13PM +0200, Mikołaj Czyż wrote:
>     > > > > > Are there any works on adding some form of archive redundancy to
>     > > > > duplicity?
>     > > > > >
>     > > > > > If I understand correctly one bit-flip can destroy the whole
>     > > duplicity
>     > > > > > backup, am I right?
>     > > > >
>     > > > > It will destroy one file of the backup, I think. The backup has
>     > > multiple
>     > > > > files.
>     > > > >
>     > > > > It will require hand work, but it's not that the whole backup will
>     > > > > disappear,
>     > > > > iiuc.
>     > > > >
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