Free deduplication solution: Bacula

began to consider. software systems for. deduplication. ( deduplication ) ( which is important especially for. servers. large enterprises ) with open source.

A review of the decision. Opendedup / SDFS. Today we take a quick look the other deduplication solutions for professional data storage systems, called. Bacula.

Among the solutions with open source. backup. and. storage. Bacula Systems is also one of the winners in the competition with proprietary software companies.

... org and CTO of Bacula Systems. ' So, to keep up with this huge growth in storage, we need to make our backup software as quickly and efficiently '. One way to do this - to enter into the server IT infrastructure deduplication.

In Bacula ( version 5. 0. 0), we implemented a function called 'Base jobs', which allows the user to control which files will be used deduplication. ' This is our first step in the de-duplication, who brought it to the level of duplicate files of possible exception, not the data blocks are not ...

He also noted that some analysts call the solution of the Deduplication Bacula as SIS, or the Single Instance Storage, but the Bacula calls him a file-level deduplication ( deduplication at the file level ).

' The advantage of the fact that we have created is that this solution is relatively simple to implement compared with other methods to avoid duplication, but nevertheless it is also effective as a tape or disk ' - added Sibbald. ' In addition, there is much less additional costs in the recovery process, as opposed to technology, which uses data deduplication at the byte level.

However, in the Bacula, and continuing experiments with block deduplication methods.

As Bacula 5. 0. 0, the release was an impressive. The company's servers were working at the limit of capacity due to wanting to download the new release, which was sold a lot of other interesting features that improve the reliability of your data, whether. server. or a serious workstation.

Source: enterprisestorageforum. com.