Jeremy Austin wrote:
> I like dirvish. The only reason (AFAIR) I chose rdiff-backup is that
> rd-b uses compressed deltas, which can save a lot of space when you
> have large files that change only a little bit. Both use rsync (gotta
> have it for my WAN links). But dirvish uses more space. If you stored
> dirvish on a compressed file system, though, that rd-b advantage might
> go away.
>
> fwiw,
> jermudgeon
Yes, when using Dirvish I noticed the space issue with large files which had
regularly occurring small changes when I was storing mail in the mbox format.
After I converted to maildirs that problem disappeared.
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