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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Techniques for trimming the sizes of backups
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Matthew Miller |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Techniques for trimming the sizes of backups |
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Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:24:33 -0500 |
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 08:57:16PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> 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.
I'm experimenting with LessFS. It's another fuse-based filesystem, and in
addition to compressing blocks, it checksums each block and only stores
identical blocks once -- "de-duplication". This seems like a particular win
with rdiff-backup, because of the problem with handling of renamed files.
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Matthew Miller address@hidden <http://mattdm.org/>