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This answer answers the question "how to do rolling backups of database dumps", but not the more general question "How to rolling backups of highly similar backups", which is what I asked

user394
– user394

2020-02-11 19:49:27 +00:00
Commented Feb 11, 2020 at 19:49
Honestly I suspect that what you actually want to achieve is deduplication, which is mentioned in the 1st approach. Maybe you would like to have a look at restic.net/blog/2015-09-12/restic-foundation1-cdc where it is described, and maybe then you would like to give them a try?

jf1
– jf1

2020-02-13 12:19:48 +00:00
Commented Feb 13, 2020 at 12:19
This comment, fleshed out in detail, would make a much more pertinent answer than your current one.

user394
– user394

2020-02-13 14:33:28 +00:00
Commented Feb 13, 2020 at 14:33

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