Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Techniques for trimming the sizes of backups

[Alex Samad]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:04:36PM +0000, Anthony Toole wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been running rdiff-backup successfully on a few servers for
> several years now - but noticed recently that the disk space
> requirements have got quite large (not a sudden change in disk usage,
> just something I looked in to when it became an issue!).

Can't really answer you other problem, but thought I would add.

I use fusecompress fs to place by destination for rdiff-backup - it does
file by file compression.

So 

partition mount to /backup/.laptop
fusecompress mount /backup/laptop

/backups/laptop is the rdiff-backup destination 


you can work with the files in /backup/laptop just like any other posix
fs. files in the /backup/.laptop are the compresses ones, you can use a
offline tool to decompress them if you want.

I have seen quite large saving specially with things like cvs, maildir
etc...

[snip]

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