Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: >>> However, the virtual hard disk is a pretty large size. My method >>> compresses it further so that the size of the backup is much >>> smaller.
>> Have a look at "borg". It is ideal to backup VMs (or anything using >> large files with only marginal changes inside) and I have been using >> it for my Virtualbox VMs for a very long time. > You might also like `bup` which does the same kind of deduplication, > so can also be used on large files that change only in small parts. Problem with bup (until recently) is that the nature of its git-based approach prohibits you from ever removing anything from the backup. "Unti recently" because there now is a way to do data retention, but: "bup only has experimental support for pruning old backups." While bup is a nice program, borg is far more mature at this point. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
