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Typical borg run: Original size Compressed size Deduplicated size This archive: 167.99 GB 136.78 GB
by l33tman 5y ago
Typical borg run:
Original size Compressed size Deduplicated size
This archive: 167.99 GB 136.78 GB 53.85 MB
All archives: 2.93 TB 2.38 TB 133.66 GB
Sorry about the formatting. But the compression is not completely irrelevant. Dedup of blocks between files and backups is of course the absolutely most crucial part though.
- lucb1e 5y agoThanks for the real-world stats! I must say it took me a bit to read it though, let me format it for others (hopefully also narrow enough for mobile): compress data | dedup 1 backup: 168G 137G 54M Σ backups: 2.9T 2.4T 134G Please correct me if 'one backup' and 'all backups' is an incorrect interpretation of 'all archives'. I wasn't entirely sure what you mean by that but I think I get the point. So in conclusion, adding compression saves about 17% (a $10 monthly bill would be $8.28 instead, if you pay per GB) for you.
- lucb1e 5y agoAnother friend has a stat of 30%, by the way. Even if I'd get the better of the two values, I don't have enough systems that a backup being 2/3rds of the original data size reduces the number of backup disks I need to buy, but it's not insignificant either.