[chbot] SD Copier

[Volker Kuhlmann]

On Tue 13 Apr 2021 09:31:51 NZST +1200, Marshland Engineering wrote:

> Yes the main problem is the size cards these days. 32GB is on the bottom end.
> By the time you make 2-3 backups, that is 100 GB and when you have a WIN 7 on
> a 250GB SSD drive, you don't have that much spare space.  
> 
> Yes I like the compressed option.

With that hardware, I would pipe the output of the disk block reader
into the compression program, so the full 32GB never need to be stored,
only the compressed version of that is writen to disk, which will be a
small fraction of the size provided you take care of unused areas.

Volker

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