Re: [Duplicity-talk] Enabling compression in a middle of a primary chain

[edgar . soldin]

btw. reads like gpg does compress by default anyway
 https://superuser.com/questions/427264/does-gnu-gpg-compress-by-default

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On 14.01.2023 15:46, Nathan MALO via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Hello Ede,
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
> I should have mentioned that I use --no-compression on the duplicity 
> command-line.
> So I do not know at which step this argument intervene.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nate
>
> Le sam. 14 janv. 2023 à 15:41, edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk 
> <duplicity-talk@nongnu.org <mailto:duplicity-talk@nongnu.org>> a écrit :
>
>     hey Nate,
>
>     On 14.01.2023 15:26, Nathan MALO via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>      > Hello,
>      >
>      > My backup strategy consists of making a master every 30days and then 
> making incremental backups between masters.
>      >
>      > I also have a multi backend : local disk and ftp with different 
> retention policy.
>      >
>      > Currently the ftp backend has one primary chain and two secondary ones. 
> The local disk has one primary chain. The next master will be made in about three 
> weeks.
>      >
>      > I have always done my backups uncompressed encrypted.
>      >
>      > Will there be any issue if I enable compression in the middle of the 
> primary chain, or should I wait for the new master to be created ?
>
>     assuming you are talking about enabling compression in gpg via 
> `--gpg-options` i would assume that this wouldn't be an issue. afaik gpg will 
> silently detect the used compression or not and decrypt.
>
>     regardless, i would advise you to do a local test. backup a small test data set gpg 
> encrypted to a file:// target, do a full, some incrementals, add e.g. 
> `--gpg-options="--compress-algo=bzip2 --bzip2-compress-level=9"`, do some more 
> incrementals.
>     not try to restore/verify each of these, just to make sure the switch 
> didn't break anything.
>
>     good luck.. ede/duply.net <http://duply.net>
>
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