How to backup database dumps which only minor changes between the backups?
- by wurlog
I have a mysql dumpfile every night and i every one of them. Each is 14 GB in size, so my backupdrive will be full soon.
The difference from one day to another are only some 100MB. How make the daily backups without wasting a lot of space.
PS: i used tar to compress 1 file and the size went down to 5GB. I hoped that when i compress two files the ratio would be better, but no. 2 dumps compressed are 10Gb