Re: Expected deduplication doesn't take place

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 01/19/16 13:21, Igor Ostapenko wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote on 19/01/2016 21:35:
>> The unique compressed data is 622 MB in both cases.  Are you sure that
>> you didn't delete .test.daily.20160119104958 before you ran tarsnap
>> again to create .test.daily.20160119105034 ?
> 
> The second run was invoked right after the first one. There were no
> deletion. Actually, write-only key is used in this situation.

That's very strange.  Are you sure you weren't doing a dry run?

> Yep, 'unique data' is still the same. Probably it means that
> deduplication is fine and it's just a question to '--print-stats'.

Can you try this again, showing `ls -l /path/to/tarsnap/cache/directory/'
before, in between, and after the two archive creations?

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Colin Percival
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