How to Create Encrypted and Bandwidth-efficient Backups Using Duplicity in Linux | Linux Today

How to Create Encrypted and Bandwidth-efficient Backups Using Duplicity in Linux

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Ravi Saive
Sep 25, 2015

Experience shows that you can never be too paranoid about system backups. When it comes to protecting and preserving precious data, it is best to go the extra mile and make sure you can depend on your backups if the need arises. In this article we will show you how to use a tool called Duplicity to backup and encrypt file and directories. In addition, using incremental backups for this task will help us to save space.

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Ravi Saive

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