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Not so. Gzip’s window is very small - 32K in the original gzip iirc, which meant even identical copies of a 33KB file would bot help each other.

Iirc it was Bzip2 that bumped that up to 1MB, and there are now compressors with larger windows - but files have also grown, it’s not a solved problem for compression utilities.

It is solved for backup - but, reatic, and a few others will do that across a backup set with no “window size” limit.

…. And all of that is only true for lossless, which does not include images or video.




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