On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:54 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:05 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
>
> > >  - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote
> > > backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step.
> >
> > That's why I use rdiff-backup.
>
> rdiff-backup isn't really suitable for offsite backups because it uses no
> compression, making the space and bandwidth requirements double those of
> other methods. It also uses no encryption.

It uses compression (gzip), but only for increments.