Large media backup barely shrinks in repository
A large mostly-media backup ends up nearly the same size as the source, leaving users doubting deduplication and compression results
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
7 public reports · first reported 1 May 2026 · last reported 3 May 2026
What's going wrong
A user backing up about eleven terabytes of documents, photos and video found the repository only about one percent smaller than the source, despite deduplication and maximum compression.
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