Hi Felix, there is a seven year old open issue asking for this feature [0]. An alternative option would be using Benji [1]. Peter [0] https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/1576 [1] https://benji-backup.me On 29.05.19 10:25, Felix Hüttner wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We are currently using Ceph as the backend for our OpenStack > blockstorage. For backup of these disks we thought about also using ceph > (just with hdd’s instead of ssd’s). As we will have some volumes that > will be backuped daily and that will probably not change too often I > searched for any possible deduplication methods for ceph. > > There I noticed this paper regarding “Global Data Deduplication” > (https://ceph.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ICDCS_2018_mwoh.pdf). It > says “We implemented the proposed design upon open source distributed > storage system, Ceph”. > > Unfortunately I was not able to find any documentation for this > anywhere. The only thing that seems related is the cephdeduptool. > > Is there some something that I just missed? Or is it implicitly done in > the background and I don’t need to care about it? > > Thanks for your help > > Felix > > Hinweise zum Datenschutz finden Sie hier <https://www.datenschutz.schwarz>. _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com