Hello Roberto,


This guide was written by me, and it is not part of the bacula.org project.

That said, the step-by-step deployment was made using ddumbfs, despite the fact 
I briefly mention that ZFS could also be used.



Rgds.

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From: "Roberto Greiner" <mrgrei...@gmail.com>
To: "bacula-users" <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 9:06 AM
Subject: [Bacula-users] Fix documentation on deduplication

Hy,

I've installed a bacula system using ZFS deduplication in an Ubuntu 22.4
server, and one thing that made me lose a lot of time is that there is
an error in the documentation, more specifically on this page:

https://www.bacula.lat/community/block-level-file-system-deduplication-with-aligned-volumes-tutorial-bacula-9-0-8-and-above/?lang=en

The same page is available in Portuguese, with the same problem, in the
following address:

https://www.bacula.lat/community/dedup-alinhado/

The error is at the end of the page, where it says that you can see how
much space is being used using 'df -h', but the problem is that df can't
actually see the space gain from dedup, it shows how much would be used
without dedup.

After some search, I found in the chapter 1.7 of
'https://bacula.org/whitepapers/DedupVolumes.pdf' that the proper
command for checking dedup usage in ZFS is 'zpool list', and that
command did show that dedup was working properly.

These are my outputs with the two commands:

user@bacula2:~$ df -h
Filesystem                         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                              788M  2,8M  786M   1% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv  910G   52G  812G   6% /
tmpfs                              3,9G     0  3,9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                              5,0M     0  5,0M   0% /run/lock
/dev/sda2                          2,0G  252M  1,6G  14% /boot
zfs                                6,4T  128K  6,4T   1% /zfs
zfs/mnt                            9,2T  2,9T  6,4T  31% /zfs/mnt
tmpfs                              788M  4,0K  788M   1% /run/user/0
tmpfs                              788M  4,0K  788M   1% /run/user/1000
user@bacula2:~$ zpool list
NAME   SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP DEDUP   
HEALTH  ALTROOT
zfs   7.27T   850G  6.44T        -         -     3%    11% 3.41x   
ONLINE  -

So, could someone please correct the two above mentioned pages? It would
avoid others from having the same problem.

Thank you,

Roberto



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