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[Feature] add no compression option for backups
Source: immich-app/immich#32383 · opened by @matthewaveryusa
I have searched the existing feature requests, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate request. • Yes The feature Even though backups are compressed with the gzip rsyncable option, my backups cannot efficiently dedup the backups. My setup is pretty simple: backups are saved to an s3 bucket using restic. In my tests, if backups were not compressed, I would be uploading ~20MB per day due to deduplication that restic does. With compression, I'm uploading 500MB per day. I'm not an expert in compression, but I think the factor at play here is the chunking that restic does is in segments too large compared to the gzip rsyncable chunks (or maybe just a different algorithm) I'd like to proposed a fix, that I'll submit a PR for: Add an option to not compress backups, with a toggle in the admin panel. On the restore side, immich already accepts either .sql or .sql.gz. Would you accept a PR for this option? I'll probably need to add …
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