On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:48 PM, valrh...@gmail.com <valrh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> One of the most useful things I've found with ZFS dedup (way to go Jeff > Bonwick and Co.!) is the ability to consolidate backups. I had six different > complete backups of all of my files spread out over various hard drives, and > dedup allowed me to consolidate them into something that took less twice the > space of the original. I was thrilled when I saw this the first time. > > This led me to another idea: I have been using DVDs for small backups here > and there for a decade now, and have a huge pile of several hundred. They > have a lot of overlapping content, so I was thinking of feeding the entire > stack into some sort of DVD autoloader, which would just read each disk, and > write its contents to a ZFS filesystem with dedup enabled. Even if the > autoloader had to run on Windows or Linux, I could just use a mounted drive > to achieve the same ends. That would allow me to consolidate a few hundred > CDs and DVDs onto probably a terabyte or so, which could then be kept > conveniently on a hard drive and archived to tape. Does anyone know of a DVD > autoloader that would allow me to do this easily, and if someone might be > willing to rent one to me (I'm in the Boston area)? I only need to do this > once. > -- > This would be a kick ass project to try to make with spare parts. I might even try it now that you bring it up. > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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