#bup
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #bup from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-29 02:33 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-29 02:33 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-29 02:33 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 19 public posts (spanning ~60049 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 04:00
Languages: English (15) · German (2) · Swedish (1) · Basque (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.1
Top of the latest posts
bup is a backup system that makes clever use of a Git object store to create very efficient compressed and deduplicated backups. For a single arbitrary data point from a server I just backed up: Plain filesystem: 13 G Single gzipped tar fil
#bup is a #Git based #backup system. bup backs up groups of files incrementally, meaning that all versions of a set of files are stored. bup stores backups efficiently and in an accessible way, meaning 100 versions of a directory won't take
I continue to find that #bup is a great compression tool for large-scale data: I have an old image of a Linux root disk that has a lot of blank (zeroed) space on it. "Compressing" it into a bup repo was faster than gzipping it, and the resu
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