In my last post I did ran a little test where I copied a few ISO's over to the test server to see how the deduplication process worked on ZFS. I've continued that testing, and copied a few virtual machines up to the lab server. To make things a bit mor… more »

Here's a quick look at the dedup results on the test box I built a week back. While this isn't a detailed test, you can see ZFS dedup in action.Base File System NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOTrpool 696G 5.59G 69… more »

Need to do a one time or scripted zip of a specific set of files? Here's how i did it with my dated folder structure.Folder structure example:200912132009121420091215What I did to compress these folders:find . -name "200912*" -prin… more »

This post has been a few weekends in the making, but I'm here today with a clean deduplicating ZFS file system in the lab. I started the project with a relatively basic goal, replace my current Debian Linux backup server with something that will maximiz… more »

With continuing problems with the latest iterations of vRanger, I'm starting to look at alternatives that would be feasible to implement within our environment. Since we have the licensing, VMware Data Recovery seems like an obvious candidate. The prob… more »