On 03.01.2013 08:19, Gary R, Schmidt wrote: >> Does anyone know whether bacula can be made to work on a block-level >> dedupe storage system? Are there any plans to support this >> technology? > > What magic are you expecting?
If I had to guess I'd say he wants to backup de-duplicated data only once instead of re-duplicating it. You're correct if you say "of course it's going to work" - after all, it's transparent on filesystem level. But depending on how redundant the data on the drive actually is, you might end up with a backup several times the original disk size - unless there is some mechanism to make bacula aware of which parts of the data is redundant. Backing up redundant data kinda defeats the purpose of deduping. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Sven Tegethoff EDV-Team _________________________________________________________ UDO BÄR GmbH & Co. KG Fürstenstraße 18 47051 Duisburg Tel.: +49 (0) 203 28117-142 Fax: +49 (0) 203 28117-151 E-Mail: tegeth...@udobaer.de Ust.-Idnr.: DE119562189, HRA 6056, Sitz der Gesellschaft: Duisburg, Gerichtsstand: Duisburg Geschäftsführer: Bodo Badnowitz, Jürgen Dietz Ein Unternehmen der BTI Gruppe: www.bti-group.com Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese E-Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser E-Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
