Hello,
first of all: you saved my weekend!
Restic is exactly doing what I am expecting.
I have a minor wish. It probably sounds stupid, because I know encryption is one of the great features. But if I using it on my home network I don’t really need this. It consumes cpu from my (slow) box.
Best Regards
matt
February 4, 2018, 11:24pm
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This issue explains a few reasons that this is not an option (yet?).
fd0
February 5, 2018, 1:23pm
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Thanks for the feedback, I’m glad restic works for you. Maybe we’ll add an option to disable encryption eventually later, you can subscribe to the GitHub issue Matt linked to be notified of any (eventual) progress.
@fd0 restic is a fantastic tool, thank you very much for open sourcing it.
Is it feasible though to add an option to remove encryption in the near future? Or is it too engrain in the code?
A good use case is to encrypt files locally and only use restic for snapshots on the cloud.
The phantom of losing password in a disaster recovery scenario makes it much harder to sleep at night.
It has been requested here:
opened 07:43AM - 10 Jun 17 UTC
type: discussion
type: feature suggestion
I'd like to disable encryption, because I'm storing the backup to an encrypted p… artition, and would like to avoid the double encryption overhead. Yes, defense in depth and all that, but it'd still be nice to be able to.
opened 12:37AM - 09 Apr 20 UTC
closed 02:04AM - 09 Apr 20 UTC
type: feature suggestion
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Output of `restic version`
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restic 0.9.5 compiled with go1.12.9 on linux/amd64
What should restic do differently? Which functionality do you think we should add?
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It would be cool to have an option not to use encryption with a repository. I have several backup destinations, but one of them is already inside a LUKS container, so restic's encryption isn't needed.
Perhaps a simple flag when initializing could merely set the encryption password to "nopassword", and subsequent operations could do the same. It could also spit out a warning about being a passwordless repo on each use, just to be sure every user understands the security implications.
What are you trying to do?
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I would just like to avoid using encryption for one of my destinations that is already encrypted at the block device level.
Did restic help you today? Did it make you happy in any way?
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I discovered restic several days ago and love it so so much. I'm already using it for a remote backup, and intend to migrate away from my previous home brewed solutions to restic. It's so cool !
https:// github. com /restic/restic/issues/1786
