You need to understand that you are now in Unix land which means you compose this pipeline using programs that perform each step of the processes. So when creating an encrypted backup you would use: `tar -c /home/foo | gzip | aescrypt >backup.tgz.aes` or something to that effect. This lets you use whatever compression program in the pipe.
Breaking this composability leads to the kind of problem you are complaining about. It also removes the ability of splitting this pipeline across machines allowing you to distribute the compute cost.
You need to understand that you are now in Unix land which means you compose this pipeline using programs that perform each step of the processes. So when creating an encrypted backup you would use: `tar -c /home/foo | gzip | aescrypt >backup.tgz.aes` or something to that effect. This lets you use whatever compression program in the pipe.
Breaking this composability leads to the kind of problem you are complaining about. It also removes the ability of splitting this pipeline across machines allowing you to distribute the compute cost.