Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup reliability ad lzop compression

[roland]

hello !

> > regarding diskspace, there is one idea coming to my mind:
> >
> > what about storing _all_ of the backup data compressed and adding a
> > layer of "realtime compression/decompression" - i.e. instead of only
> > gzipping the data in rdiff-backup-data subdir, why not compressing the
> > data in "destination_directory", too ?
>
> maybe you could do this with a block compression layer below the
> filesystem... dunno if there are any of them which are writeable though.

now there is such "compression-layer":

http://www.miio.net/fusecompress/

didn`t test with rdiff-backup yet, but everybody interested should give it a 
try - anyway.
since this is not very "mature" software, be cautious, though. don`t put 
real important data there.

regards
roland