That sounds interesting; exactly what I need, I think, rather than have to store the backups elsewhere first and then unpack onto the destination storage where they're subsequently de-duped. Having backups orchestrated by Proxmox would be ideal instead of involving this extra step.
Will this be implemented into Proxmox? I'm happy to be a guinea pig. I don't know how well that English saying translates into other languages :-) ... I'm happy to test. -----Original Message----- From: Dietmar Maurer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 November 2014 18:24 To: Chris Murray; Yannis Milios Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [PVE-User] Uncompressed backups are compressed? > 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. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5557 / Virus Database: 4213/8565 - Release Date: 11/13/14 _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
