On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <r...@karlsbakk.net> wrote: > Hi all > > 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.. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
