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Thursday, August 23, 2018

You need to encrypt and compress your backups before replicating them off site. Which is best practice, compress then encrypt, or encrypt then compress?

You need to encrypt and compress your backups before replicating them off site. Which is best practice, compress then encrypt, or encrypt then compress?

  • Neither!
  • Doesn't matter!
  • Encrypt first!
  • Compress first! 

You need to encrypt and compress your backups before replicating them off site. Which is best practice, compress then encrypt, or encrypt then compress?

EXPLANATION

If you encrypt the data first, it will be randomized and unintelligible by your compression application which need to compress the data in a logical format.
Compressing then encrypting is the way to go.

SOURCE

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4676095/when-compressing-and-encrypting-should-i-compress-first-or-encrypt-first
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