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A comment on ZFS on Linux 0.7.13. Parent comment

Re:ZFS on Linux 0.7.13 by frutiger on Thursday March 07, 2019 @09:59AM (#19328504)
> you can send encrypted incremental snapshots to a host that doesn't have the key (for backups for instance)

Isn't this possible already by encrypting the incremental snapshots with a key of your choice, and then just storing that on the remote host?

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Re:ZFS on Linux 0.7.13 by nextgens on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:12AM (#19328600)
Sure, but you can't "consolidate" them without re-transferring everything (typically differential snapshots)... whereas with native encryption, you just delete the snapshot.
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