bcgov / bcgov/backup-container

Use --rsyncable gzip optiion

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`gzip` supports an option called `--rsyncable` that makes the resulting file more deduplication friendly while only costing about 1% additional space. This will allow the NetApp to deduplicate subsequent backups of the same DB if little has changed.

http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2009/07/rsyncable-gzip.html

https://gist.github.com/ThomDietrich/ca4c7b943f294a4274fbc4e1d68bfb7f

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