[rdiff-backup-users] Compressed Backups? [repost]

[Dan Mensom]

Since yahoo garbled that post so bad even I couldn't read it, lets try
this again:

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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