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Monday, August 29, 2011

Opendedup

Opendedup Develops SDFS, a file-system that does inline deduplication.

Try it out now. Its easy to setup. Its Free.

 

The main features of SDFS are:

  • Cross Platform Support - Works on Linux or Windows.
  • Reduced Storage Utilization - SDFS Deduplication can reduce storage utilization by up to 90%-95%
  • Scalability - SDFS can dedup a Petabyte or more of data. Over 4TB per gig of memory at 128k chunk size.
  • Speed - SDFS can perform deduplication/redup at line speed 1 GB/S+
  • VMWare support - Work with vms - can dedup at 4k block sized. This is required to dedup Virtual Machines effectively
  • Flexible storage - deduplicated data can be stored locally, on the network across multiple nodes, or in the cloud.
  • Inline and Batch Mode deduplication - The file system can dedup inline or periodically based on needs. This can be changed on the fly
  • File and Folder Snapshot support - Support for file or folder level snapshots.

Read More...
http://www.opendedup.org/

Linux Quickstart Guide

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Requirements

System Requirements

Optional Packages

  • attr - (setfattr and getfattr) if you plan on doing snapshotting or setting extended file attributes

Getting Started

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http://www.opendedup.org/quickstart


Windows Quickstart Guide

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System Requirements

* Windows (7,XP,Vista,2003,2008) Distribution. The application was tested and developed on Windows 7 (32bit)
* Dokan 5.3+.  Dokan can be downloaded from http://dokan-dev.net/en/ (Included in setup)
* 2 GB of Available RAM * Java 7 (32 bit) - included in package.

Getting Started

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http://www.opendedup.org/wqs


I was going to try this one out. But it only works on 64 Bit Linux Systems and I'm running Fedora 14 - 32 Bit...

Don

Opendedup Develops SDFS, a file-system that does inline deduplication.
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