Re: multiple devices

[Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net>]

--As of April 17, 2011 4:27:04 PM -0700, debianfreedomservers@fastmail.fm 
is alleged to have said:

> If I use multiple devices to backup to my tarsnap account, are each
> devices' backups isolated or is it one giant integrated list?

--As for the rest, it is mine.

That depends slightly on how you set it up.  If you use a separate keyfile 
for each machine (as is recommended) then each machine's backups are 
isolated.

If you share your keyfile around, they'll all be on one list, as tarsnap 
will think they are all from the same machine.

Daniel T. Staal

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