Bup creator to give present Apr 9 at 2:30 PM in SF

[Tony Godshall]

OK, I got it from...

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitTogether10/bup

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Bup - Git-based backup system

by Avery

...

bupsplit is a rolling checksum similar to the rsync algorithm
There is a 60page PhD thesis de scribing the algorithm

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Anyway, I clearly inferred wrongly.

I really like this comment:

Bittorrent-like algorithms could greatly benefit from something like
bup -> use already downloaded files to seed larger collections that
contain those files

Lots of other things would benefit too from sub-file deduplicated
caching- why shouldn't my web cache share storage with apt's?

Best Regards.



On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 17:35, Tony Godshall <togo at of.net> wrote:
> I am so sorry to have misrepresented Avery.  I could swear I'd read
> that someplace... it was on the internet so it had to be true...
>
> Best Regards.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 16:12, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr at alumnit.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Tony Godshall <togo at of.net> wrote:
>>>> Avery wrote his Ph.D. thesis on this idea- it's sure to be
>>>> interesting, especially if you are familiar with git and hashes and
>>>> data compression algorithms.
>>
>> Actually, I never did a Ph.D. thesis.  But if I had, you're right, it
>> probably would have been about bup.  (Or maybe traffic shaping) :)
>>
>> Have fun,
>>
>> Avery
>>
>