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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77+btrfs@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible to dedpulicate read-only snapshots for space-efficient backups
Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 22:48:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dihl5a-m16.ln1@hurikhan.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAPkEcwgAH=w7q5JdsJB+YLxDgysOwTUg7boyZFMmfB1v3fmwCw@mail.gmail.com

james northrup <northrup.james@gmail.com> 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


      reply	other threads:[~2013-05-06 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-05 10:07 Possible to dedpulicate read-only snapshots for space-efficient backups Kai Krakow
2013-05-05 12:55 ` Gabriel de Perthuis
2013-05-05 17:22   ` Kai Krakow
2013-05-07 22:07     ` Gabriel de Perthuis
2013-05-07 23:04       ` Kai Krakow
2013-05-07 23:22         ` Kai Krakow
2013-05-07 23:35         ` Possible to deduplicate " Gabriel de Perthuis
2013-05-06  6:15 ` Possible to dedpulicate " Jan Schmidt
2013-05-06  7:44   ` Kai Krakow
2013-05-06 14:35     ` james northrup
2013-05-06 20:48       ` Kai Krakow [this message]

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