Remove zlib compression

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Alexander Neumann
2015-03-02 09:56:56 +01:00
parent b4cb75693e
commit c056382c9c
2 changed files with 6 additions and 61 deletions

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@@ -113,10 +113,10 @@ Snapshots
A snapshots represents a directory with all files and sub-directories at a
given point in time. For each backup that is made, a new snapshot is created. A
snapshot is a zlib-compressed JSON document that is stored in an encrypted file
below the directory `snapshots` in the repository. The filename is the SHA-256
hash of the (encrypted) contents. This string is unique and used within restic
to uniquely identify a snapshot.
snapshot is a JSON document that is stored in an encrypted file below the
directory `snapshots` in the repository. The filename is the SHA-256 hash of
the (encrypted) contents. This string is unique and used within restic to
uniquely identify a snapshot.
The command `restic cat snapshot` can be used as follows to decrypt and
pretty-print the contents of a snapshot file: