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by bliblubli
Sat Jan 02, 2016 5:45 pm
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: backup live systems
Replies: 18
Views: 30321

Re: backup live systems

for 2. I know we get 3TB HDD today for 80€, but 2.3GiB are still a lot to my eyes :D Are you sure it's only due to differences in size computation?
for 6. but capturing a live system works?
by bliblubli
Sat Jan 02, 2016 4:47 pm
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: backup live systems
Replies: 18
Views: 30321

Re: backup live systems

Ok, tested it for the first time, really nice addition : 1) First test to restore such files from Linux shows really high fragmentation of the partition. It is not the case on the original one (0% fragmentation). On different forums, they say it comes from NTFS-3g, what is your experience? 2) Wimlib...
by bliblubli
Fri Jan 01, 2016 10:40 pm
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: backup live systems
Replies: 18
Views: 30321

backup live systems

Is it reliable to backup a read/write mounted drive on windows with wimcapture? And the system drive?
by bliblubli
Fri Jan 01, 2016 4:19 pm
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: checksum collision and incremental backups
Replies: 7
Views: 13403

Re: checksum collision and incremental backups

1) was a misinterpretation from me. It writes xxx MiB of yyy MiB (uncompressed). But the line aboves it says it is compressed with LZX. So everything ok :) 2) Well, I would propose it as an option and of course the user has to know when to use it and when not. I can understand some people prefer ful...
by bliblubli
Fri Jan 01, 2016 2:16 pm
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: checksum collision and incremental backups
Replies: 7
Views: 13403

Re: checksum collision and incremental backups

First tests are really good :) However, I used the 1.8.4 beta 2 : 1) The doc says wimlib defaults to LZX compression, but in my case, it was uncompressed if I didn't specify the --compress option. 2) Could you add an option to automatically extract duplicated files as hardlinks (even if they were no...
by bliblubli
Thu Dec 31, 2015 6:37 pm
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: checksum collision and incremental backups
Replies: 7
Views: 13403

Re: checksum collision and incremental backups

The plan was to have it all in one archive, so I can safely remove the first image, nice :)
Look like a viable alternative to Zpaq, will test it now.
by bliblubli
Thu Dec 31, 2015 5:59 pm
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: checksum collision and incremental backups
Replies: 7
Views: 13403

Re: checksum collision and incremental backups

For 2) and 1) ok :) for 3) What I would delete to save space would be the first image (the full backup), only keeping the increments, would then rebuilding work? For files that didn't get any modification in one year, thus only being saved in the first image, how could wimlib rebuild the tree correc...
by bliblubli
Thu Dec 31, 2015 11:33 am
Forum: wimlib discussion
Topic: checksum collision and incremental backups
Replies: 7
Views: 13403

checksum collision and incremental backups

Hi Synchronicity, You did a really nice job! I have some questions: 1) As some new file systems on linux had problems with automatic deduplication due to collision in checksums, I would like to know how far wimlib was tested? Did you or someone you know used it to create incremental backups of huge ...