Re: subversion backup suggestions with tarsnap

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 07/03/14 22:48, jungleboogie0 wrote:
> My company's uncompressed svn dump file is about 3.2GB and when using
> simple gzip for compression, it compresses to about 1.3GB.
> 
> Knowing this, what's the best and most efficient way to back up the
> svn dump to tarsnap on a weekly basis?
> 
> Will tarsnap be able to identify what bits have changed in a gzip file
> or should I only use the dump and then let tarsnap's cache do all the
> work?

Run Tarsnap on the uncompressed svn data.  Tarsnap will compress data
after it deduplicates, so doing the compression yourself can only ever
get in the way.

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Colin Percival
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