graysky2 / anything-sync-daemon

Symlinks and syncs user specified dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up the system.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Anything-sync-daemon
MIT License
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compress backup directories using zstd #71

Closed manorit2001 closed 2 years ago

manorit2001 commented 2 years ago

This can help save the storage space as well as decrease the writes to HDD ( the main goal of asd ) incase of some inconsistent state

It adds a dependency of zstd as it is very efficient in terms of performance as well as compression ratio which shouldn't give much overhead while compression