From: Les Mikesell Sent: January 16, 2012 20:55 > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > > > If not LessFS can you suggest an alternate deduplication software? > > Backuppc dedups (and compresses) at the file level using hardlinks. > Not quite as effective as a block level if you have frequent small > changes in large files, but still very good with no unusual filesystem > requirements other than keeping the whole archive on one filesystem. > It will link all identical content, whether from the same or different > systems and it's rsync implementation can work with local compressed > copies while chatting with a stock remote version. Hi Les: 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. Thanks for you suggestion. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com