Just going to make a quick comment here. It's a good point about wanting backup software to support this, we're a much smaller company but it's already more difficult to manage the storage needed for backups than our live storage.
However, we're actively planning that over the next 12 months, ZFS will actually *be* our backup system, so for us just ZFS and send/receive supporting de-duplication would be great :) In fact, I can see that being useful for a number of places. ZFS send/receive is already a good way to stream incremental changes and keep filesystems in sync. Having de-duplication built into that can only be a good thing. PS. Yes, we'll still have off-site tape backups just in case, but the vast majority of our backup & restore functionality (including two off-site backups) will be just ZFS. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
