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authorLars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>2007-07-13 03:34:49 +0300
committerLars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>2007-07-13 03:34:49 +0300
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@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ binary junk which compresses badly. This can then be backed up, and
later the directory tree can be changed by creating new files, modifying
files, or deleting or renaming files. The backup can then be run again.
+The output is deterministic, such that for a given set of parameters the
+same output always happens. Thus it is more efficient to distribute
+genbackupdata and a set of parameters between people who wish to
+benchmark backup software than distributing very large test sets.
+
The home page is: http://braawi.org/genbackupdata.html
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