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If you need multiple version of such a disk image, a tool like restic (or I guess borg too, not sure?) can also compress what's provided to it via stdin. So you
by dividuum 4y ago
If you need multiple version of such a disk image, a tool like restic (or I guess borg too, not sure?) can also compress what's provided to it via stdin. So you'd dd directly into restic and it will delta compress to earlier backups.
- akerl_ 4y agoYea; this was the heart of my 1/10/1000 question. Once? I'd probably just use dd and call it a day. 10 times? Probably download clonezilla. 1000 times? Probably automate something w/ restic and some kind of object storage layer so I don't just have a directory full of giant images/deltas somewhere.