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Limitations, Bugs

   Well, all limitations of the archive tools used by KBACKUP

still apply. If e.g.  afio(1) has a bug, KBACKUP will have it, too.

Another serious limitation occurs when using  pgp(1) for encrypting archives. Pgp(1) creates temporary files during operation, so that, when using  tar(1) the maximum size of the archive is somehow limited by your free disk space in the directory for storing temporary files. Better use  afio(1)

for writing encrypted archives, not  tar(1) .

This problem has led to some patches for  afio(1) and I hope they will make it into the official release soon, so that KBACKUP will be able to provide secure encryption.



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KBackup development
Mon Jan 15 22:16:37 MET 1996