[Info-vax] backups and compaction or nocompaction might be better

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-02-01 01:46:49 +0000, AEF said:

> On Jan 29, 10:11 am, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
> wrote:
>> 
>> Always compress your data first, then encrypt it.
>> 
>> Don't bother trying to compress encrypted data.  
>> 
>> There's no point in encrypting already-encrypted data, either.  
>> 
> 
> So if properly encrypted data isn't compressible, why bother with the
> compression step?

There's no (technical) reason to do that.

Certainly encrypt the compressed data.

Don't bother compressing encrypted data.

If the drive wants to compress (compact) the encrypted data, just disable that.


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