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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Lukey"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/c7c08e2efd29c692cc017c4a4ca3406b"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2023-03-20T17:59:11Z"
+ content="""
+Not a chance. git-annex uses symetric encryption, storing the key in the git-annex branch. See [[design/encryption/]].
+
+Are you sure you don't have other clones of the repo?
+
+How exactly did you loose the repo? Maybe its possible to recover it?
+"""]]
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+I'm trying to use [datalad](http://www.datalad.org) to manage some scientific data repositories. Datalad uses git annex. 
+
+I've set up an annex for my datalad/git repository using [`git-annex-remote-rclone`](https://github.com/git-annex-remote-rclone/git-annex-remote-rclone). The setup went fine, but the transfers with a Gigabit connection are of the order of 50-100 kbs. I'm trying to troubleshoot the issue. I'm a new user of git annex. The repository has about 10 GB of stuff.
+
+I'm focusing on `git annex` because I sidestep datalad by using `git annex copy --to=gdrive2`, this is as slow as using `datalad push --to=gdrive2`, which makes sense as the latter is a thin wrapper around `git-annex-copy`.
+
+Using an external drive instead of Google Drive was a little better, but it still took hours to copy the 10 GB. Not sure what's going on.
+
+I'm running this on a M1 MacBook Pro.
+
+Any ideas on how to troubeshoot this? 
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+I am trying to use git-annex to sync a folder with a backup drive over the network.
+I have followed the walkthrough and run a git annex init in a TrueNAS jail and now I am trying to use git clone through ssh to link the drive and the jail together.
+The problem is that the clone in the backup drive just hangs. It will enumerate the files and count them and then it just seems to do nothing.
+
+
+Command: git clone ssh://user@ip/mnt/dir ./driveBackup
+Output:
+Cloning into './repo'...
+remote: Enumerating objects: 1543, done.
+remote: Counting objects: 100% (1543/1543), done.
+
+...Hangs here nothing obvious happens...
+
+Running it in verbose mode reveals nothing. When you stop the clone it will complain about some sideband packet.
+
+I don't know if it helps, but I have set up passwordless ssh login and I have verified that it works by running ssh user@ip successfully from the backup system.
+Can someone help me please?