Open PotcFdk opened 5 years ago
Downside: Simply backing up a profile directory might not backup 100 % of the data because duplicate videos might be stored outside of it.
This doesn't hold true for the hardlink case. Unless there's a better idea, my preference is supporting
in descending order of preference, depending on which of those are supported by the filesystem and which ones we have the permissions for.
While any video belongs to exactly one channel, we do support playlists and thus can have a lot of cases where a video belongs to several different profiles. However, each profile should be able to define a format (see #11), so it's not enough to just check for identical video ids, because they might impose different requirements upon the to-be-stored data.
One way to deal with this issue would be to only deduplicate if the format is identical - which might be good enough, seeing as "maximum video and audio quality" and perhaps separate audio-only profiles are the most likely use-case for this project.
Also, there are multiple ways of deduplicating.
FIDEDUPERANGE
ioctl to save disk space.