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Redundancy can fail.
by ratsmack 3y ago
Redundancy can fail.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoYours is the absolutely dumbest comment I've read all year.
- lakpan 3y agoOn the other hand, if you you forget the password to all 4 copies, redundancy will fail. Life is lossy
- jacquesm 3y agoIt's really just entropy that you're fighting here.
- aidenn0 3y agoIf a copy is physically protected (probably good to have one that is) then it could potentially be unencrypted. Restic won't let you have unencrypted backups (a reasonable design decision to prevent accidentally unencrypted backups), but Borg will. I also keep my important passwords written down on a piece of paper in a fire safe. This includes my borg and tarsnap keys.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoEncryption is an layer to prevent disclosure in cases where offsite vaulting fails to keep data confidential. Backup passwords can be split amongst trusted individuals (N-person keying) so that no one person can access contents themselves, but there is no point of failure when multiple people with the same part of the password.
- tremon 3y agoNo, you haven't demonstrated that redundancy will fail. If all 4 copies had the same password, the password was not redundant, and it is the non-redundant component that failed.
- lakpan 3y agoI never said they used the same password. If anything, having 4 different passwords to data you access exceptionally, you’re likely to have a bad time. Do you also store the passwords 4 times in 4 separate places?
- ratsmack 3y agoI'm pretty sure Google has multiple levels of redundancy and still failed.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoExcept you're wrong. The client is a SPOF.