Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Compressed Backups?

[Andrew Ferguson]

Dan Mensom wrote:
> It would seem from the manual page and by running a couple of test        
>      examples that rdiff-backup does not store the actual file contents   
>           compressed by default.. Is there any way to get it to do this?
> The              manual makes a big deal specifying that deltas are
> compressed.. But 
> why not the original files themselves?

Indeed, this is how rdiff-backup operates. The idea is that you can
always restore by copying with 'cp' if necessary. Also, if you are
backing-up to a second drive, the second drive is a mirror of the first
(plus an rdiff-backup-data directory) which speeds the restore if you
need to simply swap the second drive into the place of a deceased first
drive.

Andrew

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