[bitfolk] Backups deduplication testing - volunteers wanted

Hi, I'd like to experiment with deduplicating backups. Here's some previous experimentation I already did: http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2017/01/10/xfs-reflinks-and-deduplication/ Given that what I am proposing to test involves using the 4.9.x range of kernels, a git checkout of xfsprogs, and an experimental mkfs.xfs option, it is clearly not without risk. And understandably I suspect most people don't want to play with such risk when it's their backups at stake. I've had ~100GiB of my own backups running under this for a couple of weeks and I think it's been okay, but still… So to hopefully get things started I'm prepared to offer the first 2GiB of backups for free. And I'll offer a 25% discount on backup space beyond that. And I'll sell it in 1GiB blocks, not 5GiB ones. So that's £0.06/GiB/month, or £0.17/GiB/quarter, or £0.60/GiB/year. If you are interested in giving it a go please drop an email to support(a)bitfolk.com. As I say, it will be free for up to 2GiB. But it might break horribly and have to be withdrawn at any time, so I won't be at all surprised if you can't be bothered with that sort of faff. The boring old backup service still exists: https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Backups Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting