[Borgbackup] borgbackup, ZFS, and compression

Tamas Papp tkpapp at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 10:50:36 EDT 2020


Hi,

I am transitioning my home backup server to use ZFS, which features
transparent file-system level compression. Borgbackup archives will be
on a dedicated volume.

I am what the best approach is regarding compression:

1. enable for borgbackup, disable for ZFS (little point in trying to
compress it further I guess)

2. disable for borgbackup, enable for ZFS (will this be suboptimal? I
think that borg knows its data structure the best so maybe that will
optimal for compression),

3. something else?

Thanks,

Tamas


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