[Borgbackup] question about inconsistent use of compression

Sitaram Chamarty sitaramc at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 12:20:22 EDT 2016


On 13/03/16 21:23, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> 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."

Thanks!  I seem to have missed the internals doc when I was looking but
in hindsight it is obviously the first place I should have looked for
such a question.

/me feels silly

regards
sitaram


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