Does bacula support storing only one instance of a file that is identical accross multiple machines? Ie. if the contents of, say, /bin/ls are the same on a bunch of different hosts, is bacula smart enough to only store it once on the volume?
Similarly, if some_name.doc on one system is identical to some_other_name.doc on another system, with different file metadata (ie. different names, different permissions, different ownership, same contents) is bacula smart enough to store the contents once? I looked through the "current state of bacula" document on the website. From the fact that bacula generates checksums, you have the infrastructure for single instance storage, but I didn't see it listed as a feature. If you DO support such features, does bacula also support some sort of logarithmic repitition for popular instances? Ie. if the file is present on, say, 3 different systems, I might only want one copy of it. But if it's on 50 different systems, I might want a few copies of it, so if one of them has a media error, I don't lose this (very important) file. Do you have this feature, too? Also, is bacula hard link aware? Ie. if I have a whole bunch of large files with a bunch of hard links to them, and I restore, is the hard link structure preserved? Thanks! - Morty ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
