[BBLISA] backups

[John Stoffel]

>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Ned Harvey <bblisa4 at nedharvey.com> writes:

>> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
>> Behalf Of Ryan Pugatch
>> 
>> CommVault is currently my top option.  They do dedupe, replication and I
>> can put it all on cheap arrays.  It is pretty expensive though.

Edward> I know I'm a broken record.  ZFS does all that.

Yeah, it really is an interesting technology.  

Edward> I run Solaris 10 on Dell with ZFS.  But if you want dedup,
Edward> you'd have to use a later version, which might not have the
Edward> awesomest stability on non-sun hardware, in which case, you'd
Edward> probably have to consider the sun/oracle hardware to get
Edward> adequate support & stability.

Edward> ZFS dedup should be stable enough on non-sun hardware, about 6
Edward> months from now.

Edward> It's also worth mention that ZFS dedup does not apply
Edward> in-transit (which means it does not apply when written to
Edward> tape.)  It only applies when it's received into a filesystem.

I'm still not sure how Oracle is going to handle the Sun buyout, so
far they seem to be screwing things up left right and center, but
that's just me.

I agree that ZFS might be the solution though.

John