Re: Open source Bacula plugin for deduplication

Hello,

On 03.03.22 15:03, webmaster via Bacula-devel wrote:
> Hello
>
> I was reading this and had a thought about deduplication,
>
> The zfs filesytem has inbuilt deduplication (and compression) support
>
> so you could when creating a new backup volume
> create a virtual zfs pool/filesystem
> Write all backuped files to the zfs pool
> Which automatically does deduplication
>
> You then write the virtual zfs file system to your bacula volume
>
> Though Not sure how well this would work in practice, but seems like a 
> "simple" way to implement basic deduplication
>
Thanks, the aligned driver is designed to work in this configuration.

Best Regards,

Eric