While investigating why our backup instance was consuming significantly more disk space than expected, I noticed that databases are stored daily as compressed dumps in .tar.gz format.
We have a client with several databases where each .tar.gz file takes up around 100GB. As a result, the backup for each database ends up using over 3TB/month because compressed files cannot be deduplicated.
Since it’s not possible in Enhance to disable backups or set specific per-site rules, we’re at risk of saturating the database instance.
Would it be possible to disable database compression and instead delegate compression to btrfs? Even without compression, this could save some disk space by the end of the month.
