Hello, Concerning the email thread on deduplication: As you have heard from Radoslaw, Bacula Enterprise now has two directions it is going.
The first is with what I call "the dedup friendly" format or Aligned Volumes, which when enabled, causes Bacula to write the Volume in a format that is very friendly to dedup engines such as the Quantum DXi. This code is now 99% complete and in beta testing. I have personally tested it using a Linux kernel ZFS module, and using Solaris 11 with the root on a ZFS volume. In both cases, the dedup ratios as one would expect depend on your input data, but if you do say a full backup of the Bacula Enterprise source directory, it stores all the data only once. The disk usage increases slightly (far less than 1%) each backup because of the additional pointers. The initial beta testing is showing really nice deduplication ratios on real customer data. This code will be released in the Bacula Enterprise version at the end of March 2013. === The other direction we are going is as Radoslaw indicated with Bacula internal deduplication both on the client side (File daemon) and on the Storage daemon side. This code is still in a proof of concept stage, and I have no date yet for its integration. Since such a project is really quite large, we are hiring a new Senior Developer to work with Radoslaw's code to get it into the Enterprise Edition (hopefully before the end of the year). === The next Enterprise version (6.2.0) will be released the 14th of January 2013. One of the main features of this version is that it has a really slick Web GUI configurator written by the Bacula Enterprise developers. === Quite a number of you have purchased the Bacula Enterprise Windows binaries, thanks! For those of you who have purchased them or will purchase them in the future, on the 14th with Bacula version 6.2.0, we will also post the new Enterprise Windows binaries -- they have an updated Qt library, which I hope (no guarantees) will work better with Windows, and I have implemented IPv6 in that version as well. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
