On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Ryan Nielsen wrote:
I'm currently backing up data using rsync over ssh to remote hard drives. Those drives have filled up quite quickly. Has anyone worked with transparent compression on file systems? Does it work well? Are there any risks? I'm not (at the moment) worried about speed, just space. Is there a better way to do this?
How about an extra hard drive? I just picked up a 320gb for $120. Do you need to be saving all this data cumulatively or can you use rsync to overwrite previously saved data? Is this like a nightly backup or a additionaly data to large and growing project? Usually, compression is more of a problem that it is worth, in my opinion. Especially in a day when disk space really is cheap.
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