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ZoFreX on Feb 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcrypt broken

> offline backups

If it's online, it isn't a backup, it's redundancy.

marcosdumay on Feb 21, 2014 [–]

If it keeps history, it's not just redundancy.

And if it can not in any way overwrite history, it's as good as an offline backup. But now we are talking about custom kernels and maybe hardware.

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