On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>
>> If the underlying data is compressible it may take a lot less storage
>> than you expect.
>
> I just did a quick test: Gzip compressed a sample data file by 35.7%  :-)

One other point that might matter to you is that backuppc is not great
at handling large files that change or grow between runs.  With rsync
it will only transfer the differences, but it ends up reconstructing a
full copy of the new instance (a slow process) and storing it as a
separate copy.

--
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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