From 6cba7fd85caae1a800c43fa7c9bbf1290cca1394 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kern Sibbald Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 08:50:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update newfeatures --- docs/manuals/en/main/newfeatures.tex | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/main/newfeatures.tex b/docs/manuals/en/main/newfeatures.tex index a9e72b0a..965868ff 100644 --- a/docs/manuals/en/main/newfeatures.tex +++ b/docs/manuals/en/main/newfeatures.tex @@ -847,6 +847,21 @@ compression will not be effective, and you are likely to end up with an average compression ratio that is very small. In this case, Bacula reports {\bf None} in the Job report. +\subsection{Deduplication Optimized Volumes} +This version of Bacula includes a new alternative (or additional) +volume format that optimizes the placement of files so +that an underlying deduplicating filesystem such as ZFS +can optimally deduplicate the backup data that is written +by Bacula. These are called Deduplication Optimized Volumes +or Aligned Volumes for short. The details of how to use this +feature and its considerations are in the +Deduplication Optimized Volumes whitepaper. + +\smallskip +This feature is available if you have Bacula Community produced binaries +and the Aligned Volumes plugin. + + \chapter{New Features in 7.4.0} This chapter presents the new features that have been added to -- 2.39.5