It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/randylush on 2025-01-24 16:31:18.

Drive level compression was sort of popular way back in the day when disks were tiny.

I have about 18tb of storage that I use for various things and my 10tb "main" partition is starting to fill up.

I went to back it up using Duplicati and I was amazed to find that the backup itself only took up like 3tb!

So if I was using drive-level compression then I'd be around the same usage.

Wondering if any of you all do this on your network shares. Seems like you'd get more space, but it would be harder to predict when you run out of space. I'm not worried about performance because I have a 1g network and I'm pretty sure my server can zip faster than this.

I'm just using samba with a linux distro for my network storage, no proprietary NAS.