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keastes
October 5th, 2011, 06:55 AM
has anyone had any experence with ZFS-FUSE (http://zfs-fuse.net/) or FuseCompress (http://miio.net/wordpress/projects/fusecompress/)? planing on running rsync to an external HDD for backup and seeing which works best or period for that matter
LowSky
October 5th, 2011, 07:51 AM
ZFS is pretty nice, but why do you need file compression?
keastes
October 5th, 2011, 07:58 AM
ZFS is pretty nice, but why do you need file compression?

for the simple reason that my main and backup HDDs are the same size, plus i want some kind of versioning for differential and incremental backups.
mips
October 5th, 2011, 09:20 AM
Why not use rsync with compression of the files?
keastes
October 5th, 2011, 09:38 AM
Why not use rsync with compression of the files?


KISS(Keep It Simple, Stupid or Keep It Super Simple), and compression before backing up is impractical at best seeing as i will be using those files frequently, after backup would make file comparisons more processor intensive, and CPU cycles will be at a premium seeing as im not running new Hardware