SFTP and Btrfs compression

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Given Oracle Cloud is giving away 200GB of block storage, I’m about to set up a VM running openSUSE MicroOS (which uses Btrfs by default, which supports transparent compression).

Has anyone tried this setup?

  • on the remote side, use a subvolume mounted with zstd compression with a reasonably high setting
  • on the local side, pass -o sftp.command="sftp -C" (or configure it in ~.ssh/config)
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The repository created by restic is encrypted, thus compression at the filesystem level won’t have any effect.

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Yeah, good point. In my cursory test Btrfs decided the files are not compressible, this saves me trying with q larger dataset, thanks.

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@michel That said, see Compression support has landed in master! :smiley:

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Yup, saw it! I’ll wait until it is released on all the platforms I use then copy my backup repo to the new format

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