Mordechai T. Abzug wrote:
> Does bacula support storing only one instance of a file that is
> identical accross multiple machines? Ie. if the contents of, say,
> /bin/ls are the same on a bunch of different hosts, is bacula smart
> enough to only store it once on the volume?
Not YET. However, one of the planned future features is "base jobs",
which will enable Bacula to recognize when several hundred files are
identical across different machines (an OS image, say) and store those
files only once.
> Also, is bacula hard link aware? Ie. if I have a whole bunch of large
> files with a bunch of hard links to them, and I restore, is the hard
> link structure preserved?
It is, and yes, it should be.
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