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blankverse on April 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tarsnap price cut

What is "unique data"? Does it do de-duplication across users? Are you paying only for unique compressed data?

Cederfjard on April 2, 2014 [–]

http://www.tarsnap.com/faq.html#DEDUPE

Deduplication across users isn't possible due to encryption, but it is done locally on your own data, so it is true that you only pay for unique and compressed data.

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