Is it safe to dedupe snapshots on the server and the client?

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Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes

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Is it safe to dedupe snapshots on the server and the client? #573

Open RustyNova016 opened 7 months ago

RustyNova016 commented 7 months ago

I'd like to deduplicate some data with duperemove on both my clients and my server, and I'm wondering if it's safe to dedupe all snapshots. Deduping the latest snapshots may look a bit iffy. Any advice on that?