On 01/03/13 02:19, Gary R, Schmidt wrote:
>> Does anyone know whether bacula can be made to work on a block-level
>> dedupe storage system? Are there any plans to support this
>> technology?
>
> What exactly do you mean by "work"?
>
> If you mean "use as a target for disk-based storage volumes," it's just
> another fscking file system, it will work.
>
> If you mean "can Bacula read files from it," then, again, it's just
> another fscking file system, of course it will work.
>
> ZFS is being used for both.
>
> What magic are you expecting?
Keep in mind that ZFS block-level deduplication is very expensive in
terms of RAM.
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