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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:59:10 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: weigelt@metux.de,
	"Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] compressed filesystem
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On 8/10/07, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> is there already an compressed (9p-)filesystem ?
> I'm doing regular rsync backups of several machines and like to
> save disk space. Performance is not important here.

What are you backing up? /home or /usr or /usr/local or ....

depending on what you are backing up, venti may be a huge win, as
duplicate blocks from different machines will result in only one block
being written.

What is "several" -- 2 or 3 or ...

What's the disk space issue? how much disk?

ron