Question: Why is the backup first copied to a local drive?

[GenFlogi]

Disclaimer - I am not an expert on this topic and my question could be stupid but I am trying to understand this a bit more.

So to my understanding, when a full backup is being made it first copies everything to the set local directory so that it can compress/encrypt the data before sending it to the external backup site. Now my question is, why does it need to copy everything to the local drive? Can't it compress/encrypt the data in memory and then send it directly to do the off-site backup?

The reason why I am asking this is that regularly writing and rewriting everything on my hard disk puts a lot of stress on it (stress that in my eyes is not needed).

Also if this is required for compression/encryption would it be possible to skip this step if you disable both compression and encryption?

Thanks in advance 😅

[Kisaragi-ng]

Now my question is, why does it need to copy everything to the local drive? Can't it compress/encrypt the data in memory and then send it directly to do the off-site backup?

Some users might have data that's larger than their memory, so not processing it in memory by default makes more sense.

The reason why I am asking this is that regularly writing and rewriting everything on my hard disk puts a lot of stress on it (stress that in my eyes is not needed).

You should see the command occ backup:external:appdata to store the processing data elsewhere, including to your ramdisk

Also if this is required for compression/encryption would it be possible to skip this step if you disable both compression and encryption?

uncheck both checkbox from webui under "Packing processing"