Tino Schwarze wrote: > >> I've seen in some commercial backup systems with included >> deduplication (which often run under Linux :-), that files are split in >> 128k or 256k chunks prior to deduplication. >> >> It's nice to improve the deduplication ratio for big log files, mbox >> files, binary db not often updated, etc. Only the last chunk of a log >> file would create a new entry in the backuppc pool. >> >> Anybody has idead about how this feature could be added without major >> changes to backuppc ? (replacing hard links with text files containing >> the list of chunks ?) > > Oh no, not even more small files in the file system! :-< > > But the idea's not too bad. And it would need to be enabled per host > (possibly per file or backed up directory) anyway.
I'd probably look at what rdiff-backup does with incremental differences and instead of chunking everything, just track changes where the differences are small. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/