Greetings, We're thinking of using Bacula as our disk-to-disk solution for backing user and research data. I'm still reading up on it, but I haven't found the answer to the following question.
Called pooling in BackupPC and deduplication by industry, I've been trying to find out if Bacula has it. A search of the site for either word brings up nothing relevant. Does the current version of Bacula have the ability to store backups of the same file as one file with links? For example: If Bob and Joan both have the exact same 2 MB PDF in their home directory, a normal backup would store it twice for a total of 4 MB. What deduplication does, is store the file once in a central location, and then store links from the individual backups to the file. If 100 people have this same file, rather than taking up 200 MB of space, it still only takes up 2 MB. Unique, I believe, to disk-to-disk backups. Thanks for your help, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
