bill wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > martin wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I would get a real journal and check for real which is the > > > > compressibility of the data that is actually there. > > > > > > On a test machine with a good cross-section of activity documents, I > > > gzipped all the files in the datastore directory. Only 6% storage > > > savings according to the gzip stats - higher if I only look at the > > > metadata files (avg 12%). Several files had negative compression > > > ratios. > > > > > > So your suspicions seem correct - compression is a marginal win at > > > best for ds-backup. > > > > i assume we're already doing duplicate checks in order to avoid > > storing the same present-on-every-client executable N times, right? > > Ds-backup only backs up files in the XO users journal so except for > downloaded *.xo bundles there won't be any?? 'executables'. i.e. You
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