Re: [rdiff-backup-users] delete initial mirror

[Alex Samad]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:41:57AM -0400, Daniel Miller wrote:
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> On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:03 PM, plug bert wrote:
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> >   Hmm...so in that case, if i want to incrementally back up a
> >100gb file daily for one week, and for simplicity's sake, assume
> >the file grows 1gb per day, my backup media will need to be at
> >least 100gb + 6gb?
> 
> Yes... plus a bit of space for rdiff-backup housekeeping data.

sorry, doesn't rdiff-backup work at the file level, not the block level.
so a 100G file that has 1 byte changed, mean that 200G of backup space
is used ?  so for 6 days of changes to the 100G file that would take up
600G of space

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