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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool? by jpeterson on Saturday November 27, 2010 @11:22PM (#1946663)
Doesn't this make your syncs terribly slow? It will basically have to send up your entire partition every time you make a change in any file there.
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool? by mdda on Sunday November 28, 2010 @12:32AM (#1946757)
AFAIR : Truecrypt is designed so that changed plain blocks map to changed secure blocks : i.e. the whole secure image doesn't change if one plain file does. (Makes sense from a speed perspective too).
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool? by epochwolf on Saturday November 27, 2010 @11:25PM (#1946667)
I think Dropbox uploads diffs instead of the entire file based on the speed of synchronization of my yojimbo database.