If you turn TLS and file encryption - the data will be double encrypted

Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 26.10.2007 10:52,, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote::
>> Hello Bacula Users,
>>
>> I want to do encrypted backups and asked myself wether it 
>> makes sense to turn off the hardware compression of the 
>> tape drive. 
>>
>> AFAIK does encryption do some kind of compression (the entropy
>> of the messages is significantly reduced) and so an additional
>> hardware compression could make things worse. 
>>
>> Is my reasoning ok?
> 
> I think so.
> 
>> A second thing, if I turn on data encryption and TLS, will the
>> data on the wire be twice encrypted?
> 
> I have no idea.
> 
> Arno
> 
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>> Eric
>>
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