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

[Alex Samad]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 08:24:33AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.

thats nice.... what compression tec does it use

> 

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