[CentOS] Deduplication data for CentOS?

Wed Sep 12 04:01:11 UTC 2012
Bob Hepple <bob.hepple at gmail.com>

Rainer Traut <tr.ml at ...> writes:

> 
> Hi list,
> 
> is there any working solution for deduplication of data for centos?
> We are trying to find a solution for our backup server which runs a bash 
> script invoking xdelta(3). But having this functionality in fs is much 
> more friendly...
> 
> We have looked into lessfs, sdfs and ddar.
> Are these filesystems ready to use (on centos)?
> ddar is sthg different, I know.
> 
> Thx
> Rainer
> 


Not sure if it's already been mentioned but storeBackup uses rsync and hardlinks
to minimise storage - and it break up big files and backs up the fragments
separately. May help ...
http://www.nongnu.org/storebackup/en/node2.html