On 03.01.2013 19:00, Silver Salonen wrote:
[SNIP]
>
> Cannot it be summarized just by "client-side global de-duplication"? 
> Ie.
> if the file A from Client1 is already backed up, the same file from
> Client2 is backed up as a pointer only. If this is not possible, we
> don't have a "true" and the "best" form of de-duplication :)

That makes sense.

To do it Bacula would have to be able to hook into the underlying 
dedupe logic, and track every block that was used multiple times, and 
possibly be told when a change occurs.

This sounds like something to see in Bacula Enterprise, not the 
community edition.

         Cheera,
                 Gary    B-)


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