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2015-01-19 , 20:56
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Originally Posted by misterc View Post
the Jolla backup.tar is not compressed, thus (at least) 1:1 the original data (1742MBs in my case)
I see. Therefore I have < 30MB uncompressed
Originally Posted by misterc View Post
i meanwhile discovered that Jolla doesn't only transfer the last backup (as one might expect) but all of them
however that works, as there is only one .vault dir (which is 1742MBs)

yet another unlike thing, i guess
I love complaining without actually knowing how it works.

The backup system in Jolla (The Vault) is based on git, therefore you can have 50 backups, but the files have just one copy per version.
Let's illustrate on photos:
If you make one backup in April, another in August (taking pictures in the meanwhile) and a third one in December (again, lots of pictures in between), then the size of the three backups combined will be the same as the size of the last (December) backup.
Of course, it is up to you how many backups you want to preserve (you can delete the rest), but complaining that Jolla saves all backups is beyond my understanding.

I'd call it smart, if anything.
 

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