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@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@ connections it makes: You **must** implement protection on this level yourself.
Backups are stored as-is on the remote server: If your backup requires it,
encrypt it!
+Alternative Implementations: There are other ways to implement the functionality
+of this tool. I specifically considered creating system user accounts whose
+login shell is set to something custom for each peer so they can be automatated
+over SSH (which would deal with encryption for me) - that idea was discarded
+because it feels too much like security layers are not clear-cut when using SSH
+for semi-untrusted operations. A read-write network filesystem with a script
+copying backups to a safe location outside of the shared FS could work too but
+requires some effort to implement for multiple users.
+
## Usage
1. Intall the CLI with cargo: