[clug] Deduping backups from more than one workstation?

[Matthew Oliver]

A few weeks ago I do remember reading about lessfs which is a deduping FS,
you try using it.

http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/

matt


On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I have a backup scheme which involves my workstations rsyncing
> themselves to a server. At the moment there is one directory per
> workstation. However, this is kind of painful because the workstations
> have many duplicate files (source repositories, OS files, etc).
>
> So, how do other people solve this problem? Is there some fancy pants
> filesystem which can handle having duplicates of many files while only
> storing them once?
>
> Thanks,
> Mikal
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