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[rdiff-backup-users] Compressed Backups?
From: |
Dan Mensom |
Subject: |
[rdiff-backup-users] Compressed Backups? |
Date: |
Tue, 22 May 2007 19:00:09 -0700 (PDT) |
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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