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BorgBackup creates compressed and de-duplicated backups, splitting data into chunks then only keeping unique chunks + a list of files those chunks belong too.
I've currently got around 470gb being backed up; compression brings that down to 320gb, then after de-duplication that's down closer to 70gb. (there's a lot of media metadata in there, results will vary)
17 backups going back 6 months: 8.10 TB original > 5.62 TB compressed > 326.55 GB final backup data stored on disk
/edit this thread is a week old.... It showed up at the top of my 'new' feed...? Odd.
thank you so much!! but the website you provided of this seems like it's only for linux not windows right?
It is a Linux tool unfortunately :/
You could use it to clone the windows disc/partition from a Linux machine/live usb, try out your de-bloating process, and restore again via a Linux machine/live usb if needed.
Yeah I'll use 7 zip instead tks bro