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rsync useful w/ encrypted files?

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Mar 15, 20266907 views

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Is rsync efficient for transferring encrypted files? More specifically: I encrypt 'x' with my public key and call the result 'y'. I rsync 'y' to my backup server. 'x' changes slightly I encrypt the modified 'x' and rsync the modified 'y' to my backup server. Is this efficient? I know a small change…

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First of all, congratulations for taking backups seriously. Looked at purely from an rsync-transfer-efficiency point of view, you would be a lot better off compressing and encrypting individual files and then creating tarballs of those for which you…

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