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Written by Jonathan Kamens on 2025-02-01 at 03:34

Today it suddenly occurred to me, "Hmm, I bet #rclone supports a compression backend. If so, then I could be compressing my cloud backups to save on storage costs." So I went and looked it up, and indeed it does, and I could.

There's even a "union" backend I could use to migrate gradually to compressed backups rather than paying download and upload costs to recompress everything.

Seems like a great idea, right? Or is it?

[#]tech #backups #hacking

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Written by Jonathan Kamens on 2025-02-01 at 03:37

I could spend many hours rewriting all my bespoke backup tools to work with compressed backups (they're complicated because my backups are encrypted) and writing new tools to manage the union backend.

And I would save maybe a few dollars a month in storage costs. If I'm lucky I might even recoup my time investment before I die.

Rationally, this is clearly not worth doing. But I had to stare myself down for 15 minutes to stop myself from doing it just because it would be cool.

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