> On Sep 7, 2017, at 2:54 PM, Scott Robison <sc...@casaderobison.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Garance AE Drosehn wrote: >> >> De-duplication works great in some other situations because the other >> service is de-duplicating files across (say) 20 different Windows machines. >> So the first machine may use up 10-gig of space, but all of the rest of the >> machines might have less than a gig of additional unique files per machine. >> Tarsnap cannot do that kind of optimization across multiple machines. > > Depending on just how paranoid you are, and how disciplined you are, > you can have multiple machines deduplicate to a common store, as long > as you only have one running at a time. > > What you wrote does not preclude that from happening, I just wanted to > point it out in case others might be interested in something like > that.
Hmm. Yes, that's an interesting point. I can see how that could be setup and work okay. I hadn't thought about doing things that way, but I see how it could work as long as it was setup with care. But I'm not going to do it for my own machines! :) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gadc...@earthlink.net Senior Systems Programmer or g...@freebsd.org