Re: [PLUG] epiphany or stupidity?

[brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com>]

On 08/24/2016 11:59 AM, Andrew Libby wrote:
> 
> Classic deduplication problem.  Many backup solutions (and even
> filesystems) provide dedup.  I believe Bacula does these days, and
> it's been something BackuPPC has does.
> 
> A smart idea, I guess I'd say the work is in figuring out how to
> implement it well, tracking what's the same across systems and
> then devising a restore process that leverages a single copy of
> what's common.
> 
> I've run several installs of backuppc, and the dedup for homogeneous
> environments is pretty impressive.
> 
> Andy
> 

speaking of deduplication, check out borg[0].

i've found i like it a lot more than the other ones i've tried, and the
deduping and compression i've seen with it is pretty impressive.


[0] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

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