+ - Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication? 5
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ltjohhed
ltjohhed writes "We've been using deduplication products, for backup purposes, at my company for a couple of years now (DataDomain, NetApp etc). Although they've fully satisfied the customer needs in terms of functionality, they don't come across cheap — whatever the brand.
So we went looking for some free dedup. software. OpenSolaris, using ZFS dedup, was there first that came to mind, but OpenSolaris' future doesn't look all that bright. Another possibility might be utilizing LessFS, if it's fully ready.
What are the slashdotters favourite dedup flavour?
Is there any free dedup software out there that is ready customer deployment?"
So we went looking for some free dedup. software. OpenSolaris, using ZFS dedup, was there first that came to mind, but OpenSolaris' future doesn't look all that bright. Another possibility might be utilizing LessFS, if it's fully ready.
What are the slashdotters favourite dedup flavour?
Is there any free dedup software out there that is ready customer deployment?"
BSD has ZFS support (Score:2)
It does work on Linux but for now would be too slow for you because they still only have it on FUSE. So pick a BSD, which is much more stable and run with ZFS still.
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Ah, great!
Any experience of ZFS dedup performance on FreeBSD?
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No I don't. Good luck to you though.
nexenta (Score:1)
might be worth looking at. they're even including zfs' snapshotting feature into the package-manager.
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Yes, I had a glance at nexenta and it looks really nice. However it's OpenSolaris underneath the gui wrap and that makes me wonder about how long it will still be in the game