[Borgbackup] question about inconsistent use of compression

Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver at aklaver.com
Sun Mar 13 11:53:21 EDT 2016


On 03/13/2016 08:51 AM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably a stupid question, but are there any caveats to running some 'create's with and some without '-C'?  Or even, with different compressions at different times?
>
> Does it affect dedup in any way, for instance?  I suspect not but thought I'd ask anyway.


http://borgbackup.readthedocs.org/en/stable/internals.html#compression

"Compression is applied after deduplication, thus using different 
compression methods in one repo does not influence deduplication."

>
> regards
> sitaram
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