Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk 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?

Roy,

This was discussed, see
http://marc.info/?l=bacula-users&m=126576572029944&w=1
The short answer is no.

Attila


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> 
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