[rdiff-backup-users] Compressed Backups?

[Dan Mensom]

It would seem from the manual page and by running a couple of test        
     examples that rdiff-backup does not store the actual file contents   
          compressed by default.. Is there any way to get it to do this?
The              manual makes a big deal specifying that deltas are
compressed.. But 
why not the original files themselves?

I would expect my usage case is a common one: I want to back up a lot     
     of web + email content that should be very compressible. But from the
          first time I run rdiff, all that data seems to be stored
uncompressed,          taking 4-5x (or more) what it would take if I just
created a tar.gz 
archive..


 
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