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Re: Re: [Duplicity-talk] Backuping up a whole filesystem?
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Gabriel Ambuehl |
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Re: Re: [Duplicity-talk] Backuping up a whole filesystem? |
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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:43:04 +0200 |
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On 22.8.09 David Stanaway wrote:
> I could run some tests and find out to see how rdiff scales for pulling
> out the commonality between large (For small definitions of large -
> backing up small VPS systems email, config, web and logs for instance)
> solid archives (Like a tar or fsdump with no compression).
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> In my case, I want to have compressed secure offsite backups of 1-2 GB
> of Cyrus data and 500MB of website data and logs (Mostly images and very
> low change rate.
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Then why bother with FS images instead of simply backing up the files as
duplicity does it? It seems like duplicity would do a very good job in this
scenario.