On 01/03/13 02:19, 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 exactly do you mean by "work"? > > If you mean "use as a target for disk-based storage volumes," it's just > another fscking file system, it will work. > > If you mean "can Bacula read files from it," then, again, it's just > another fscking file system, of course it will work. > > ZFS is being used for both. > > What magic are you expecting?
Keep in mind that ZFS block-level deduplication is very expensive in terms of RAM. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
