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 »

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 »