Re: subversion backup suggestions with tarsnap

[jungleboogie0 <jungleboogie0@gmail.com>]

Hi Colin,
On 3 July 2014 23:11, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I had a feeling that would be the proper way to handle backups with Tarsnap.

You might want to consider having that be a FAQ:
Q: What's the best way to have backups stored for Tarsnap?
A: Don't apply any compression (gzip, bzip, zip, tar.gz, etc) to your
data and let tarsnap handle the compression because doing the
compression yourself can only ever get in the way.


> --
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid.

Thanks,
jungle

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