| Isaac Bennetch on 24 Aug 2016 09:18:18 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] epiphany or stupidity? |
> On Aug 24, 2016, at 12:04 PM, brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. I'm also quite pleased with borg. I haven't had to do any full restores with it, but minor testing of restores and backing up has been a breeze. One aspect is that I'm using a different repository for each host, so my system files and other duplicated files are not deduplicated between the per-host backup repository, but with each incremental backup I do see quite good deduplication results. The deltas between runs (of the same host, of course) are usually quite small. > > > [0] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug