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Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by stavros on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:04PM (#30582173)
Do you know if Restic supports block-level deduplication? I am backing up some database dumps and the backup filesystem has ballooned in size, even though the dumps are 99% identical every day. This makes me suspect that they only deduplicate on the file level, and that I would have some very significant savings if I zipped the dumps before backing up.

EDIT: Some details on deduplication are here, and I'm puzzled as to why my backups are so big: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/100_references.html?...

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by XorNot on Sunday March 06, 2022 @06:47PM (#30582446)
Restics dedupe window is tuned to a 1mb boundary - it's optimised for cloud provider IOPS.

Bup with it's rsync sized one always did much better for databases for me.

Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Backblaze by stavros on Monday March 07, 2022 @05:54AM (#30586303)
That's interesting, thank you. Do you have any info on how to enable that one?