> > We're planning a Bacula setup soon with disk as the backup medium. > > The disk space will be hosted by OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana on ZFS. > > Since ZFS supports block-level deduplicaiton, at least theoretically > > (there are a few bugs aorund, but they are rumored to be fixed - > > I'll do some testing before jumping into it). I have heard some > > backup software (for instance BackupExec) makes backups hard to > > dedup because it doesn't care about how data is stored. Other backup > > software try to align data so that they are more easily > > deduplicated. > > > > Now, does Bacula care about possible deduplication on the media side > > when storing the data? > > > > I would say no. You can also mirror the volume files, rsync them to a > second server ... and then use the duplicated ones in the future > provided the catalog matches the volumes. If it does not you can use > bscan to fix that..
With ZFS rsync won't really be a good deal, when zfs send/receive does the job a wee bit better. Still, has anyone in here tried to use storage with dedup capabilities for their disk backups? Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 [email protected] http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
