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		iancarroll on March 31, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to... I use tarsnap for all my backups, but that's a service as well as a tool. This is my daily crontab: http://pastie.org/8982530

icebraining on March 31, 2014 [–]

Same here. Just did a full backup of my VPS:

               Total size Compressed size
  All archives 3.7 GB     1.5 GB

Deduplication ftw.

cperciva on March 31, 2014 | [–]

That's just showing the compression (deflate). Deduplication is why "(unique data)" line which you didn't paste will be lower.

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