Re: Possible to dedpulicate read-only snapshots for space-efficient backups

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james northrup <northrup.james@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb:

> tried a git based backup? sounds spot-on as a compromise prior to
> applying btrfs tweaks.  snapshotting the git binaries would have the
> dedupe characteristics.

Git is efficient with space, yes. But if you have a lot of binary files, and 
a lot of them are big, git becomes really slow really fast. Checking out and 
in can be very slow and resource intensive then. And I don't think it would 
track ownership and permissions correctly.

Git is great, it's an everyday tool for me, but it is just not made for 
binary files.

Regards,
Kai

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