> I see from the forum link [1] that the file is not rdiff friendly. I still > think that > storing an amount of data inside a smaller file is ‘compression’, regardless > of > how much is actually used inside the RAW file (is RLE compression still a > thing?), > but that does answer my question. It’s a shame, because I’ll now have to > extract > backups as they’re created somehow in order to get them into a state where > they can be de-duplicated again. I think many people would appreciate a file > format inside which the data is aligned, even if it is out-of-order to a > degree. I > won’t be the first person who has virtual machines which don’t change much.
I also implemented a backup mode inside qemu which stores files in raw format inside one directory. But that is currently not integrated with vzdump. _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
