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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by iancarroll on Monday March 31, 2014 @09:16AM (#7501209)
I use tarsnap for all my backups, but that's a service as well as a tool.

This is my daily crontab: http://pastie.org/8982530

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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by icebraining on Monday March 31, 2014 @09:41AM (#7501347)
Same here. Just did a full backup of my VPS:

               Total size Compressed size
  All archives 3.7 GB     1.5 GB
Deduplication ftw.
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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by cperciva on Monday March 31, 2014 @12:28PM (#7502436)
That's just showing the compression (deflate). Deduplication is why "(unique data)" line which you didn't paste will be lower.
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