Re: Compressing CPAN Testers test results for long-term archival storage

On 05/05/2025 17:23, Scott Baker wrote:

> High speed database-grade cloud storage is not cheap. Whatever we can do 
> to decrease the amount of raw storage we need the better. Lower storage 
> usage means faster replication and quicker backups. Have you ever tried 
> backing up 1TB of data in the cloud? Spoiler alert: it's not easy.

The initial sync is a pain, but after that it's tolerable, especially if 
you can efficiently just send diffs eg with zfs send/recv.

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David Cantrell