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Lessfs offers a flexible solution to utilize data deduplication on affordable commodity hardware. In recent years, the storage industry has been busy providing some of the most advanced features to its customers, including data deduplication. Data deduplication is a unique data compression technique used to eliminate redundant data and decrease the total capacities consumed on an enabled storage volume. A volume can refer to a disk device, a partition or a grouped set of disk devices all represented as single device. During the process of deduplication, redundant data is deleted, leaving a single copy of the data to be stored on the storage volume.
I am, like all too many, not very assiduous in backing up my personal data at home (though I do -- occasionally and irregularly -- back up the "important stuff" like e-mail, bank records and bookmarks, etc to a usb-stick &/or my other computer. And when I get a new hard-drive, the old drive becomes my "back-up".).
Arrant hypocrite that I am, I make anyone I help more than a couple of times with their Windows box sit through a lesson in "How To Back Up Your Data" (and point out how little I may be able to do to rescue their data if they don't bother).
So I really like to have multiple copies of anything important on on my system on different drives and partitions. And I prefer it that way. De-duplicate my data? Horror! Yes, I know I'm not supposed to do it that way.
When I used Windows I was much more careful about such things -- so I blame Linux's reliability for making me lazy ;-P
Yeah, that's it -- it's Linux's fault...
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I am, like all too many, not very assiduous in backing up my personal data at home (though I do -- occasionally and irregularly -- back up the "important stuff" like e-mail, bank records and bookmarks, etc to a usb-stick &/or my other computer. And when I get a new hard-drive, the old drive becomes my "back-up".).
Arrant hypocrite that I am, I make anyone I help more than a couple of times with their Windows box sit through a lesson in "How To Back Up Your Data" (and point out how little I may be able to do to rescue their data if they don't bother).
So I really like to have multiple copies of anything important on on my system on different drives and partitions. And I prefer it that way. De-duplicate my data? Horror! Yes, I know I'm not supposed to do it that way.
When I used Windows I was much more careful about such things -- so I blame Linux's reliability for making me lazy ;-P
Yeah, that's it -- it's Linux's fault...