On 02.12.2014, Matthew Miller wrote: > It doesn't, however, do compression or encryption. If the data is important (why make a backup otherwise?), this is a bad idea. One single bit flip can render your whole archive/backup useless (unless you have some par2 checksums for it, which isn't a 100% guarantee either). And big harddisk are not that expensive nowadays.. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org