Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

On 01/16/12 9:26 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:

Trust you to always come up with an interesting suggestion or two. I will have a further look at this but, on first blush, I do not think that this will be very effective in our environment. We will be backing up several small databases 1-8 GB each along with the related programs from our development system, out users home directories which include their Outlook PST files, Word/Excel files, etc. While the compression should work for all files I can not see the dedup working for much beyond the Word/Excel files. We will definitely have a look at it.

I hope you know, dedup systems rarely scale well, as the corpus of files get bigger and bigger, they can really grind to a halt.