On 07/03/14 22:48, jungleboogie0 wrote: > My company's uncompressed svn dump file is about 3.2GB and when using > simple gzip for compression, it compresses to about 1.3GB. > > Knowing this, what's the best and most efficient way to back up the > svn dump to tarsnap on a weekly basis? > > Will tarsnap be able to identify what bits have changed in a gzip file > or should I only use the dump and then let tarsnap's cache do all the > work?
Run Tarsnap on the uncompressed svn data. Tarsnap will compress data after it deduplicates, so doing the compression yourself can only ever get in the way. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid.
