> Unless you look at source code, you'll never know if a backup service is encrypting your backups or not. At least with tarsnap you have the option of reading

> Unless you look at source code, you'll never know if a backup service is encrypting your backups or not. At least with tarsnap you have the option of reading the source code to verify that tarsnap does what I say it does. :-) You could reverse engineer the protocol that other products use. :_) And I'd rather just assume that somebody else has reviewed the source code.