Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > We're planning a Bacula setup soon with disk as the backup medium. The disk > space will be hosted by OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana on ZFS. Since ZFS supports > block-level deduplicaiton, at least theoretically (there are a few bugs > aorund, but they are rumored to be fixed - I'll do some testing before > jumping into it). I have heard some backup software (for instance BackupExec) > makes backups hard to dedup because it doesn't care about how data is stored. > Other backup software try to align data so that they are more easily > deduplicated. > > Now, does Bacula care about possible deduplication on the media side when > storing the data?
Roy, This was discussed, see http://marc.info/?l=bacula-users&m=126576572029944&w=1 The short answer is no. Attila > Vennlige hilsener / Best regards > > roy > -- > Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk > (+47) 97542685 > r...@karlsbakk.net > http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ > -- > I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det > er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av > idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og > relevante synonymer på norsk. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
