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> Encrypted backups can't be deduplicated unless the encryption is flawed This isn't an encryption problem; each device can only have one instance of Signal in
by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Encrypted backups can't be deduplicated unless the encryption is flawed
This isn't an encryption problem; each device can only have one instance of Signal installed, and the latest backup (assuming it has terminated successfully) is a superset of the previous ones (aside from any messages that have dropped from retention, which you presumably don't want to be preserving, by definition).
"Deduplicate" in this context means ensuring that you only have N backups in your remote storage, rather than cumulatively storing every day.
- hiq 1y agoSignal has always between one and two backups, it removes the old ones.