[sugar] Disconnected backups.

[Ivan Krstić]

On Feb 19, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
> That's a separate issue - at the simplest, you just store the  
> encryption key on the first backup and only manually thereafter; a  
> more complicated scheme, for implementing later, would break it into  
> 5 parts of which any 3 would suffice, and store the same 2 parts on  
> all the backups

Collaborative erasure-coded backups are not a good idea for devices  
with very limited storage, except in special cases.

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