On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:05:37 -0500 gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday, February 25, 2011 08:04:58 pm Christ Schlacta did opine: > > > I have over 13EB on an 8GB Flash Drive using ZFS Compression and > > Deduplication. That gives me an idea for AManda. We should add > > block/file level deduplication to Amanda. > > > That would be lrzip, all we have to do is teach amanda how to use it. What would *really* save space is for Amanda to detect that machines A, B and C all have the save version of file foo (even if they are in different places), and only actually keep one around. I suspect that would be very compute intensive at backup time, but these days.... -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
