On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:32:13PM +0200, Ludovic Drolez 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.

Tino.

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