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Global Endpoint Deduplication

Bacula Enterprise offers two versions of the Global Endpoint Deduplication plugin:

This is the version available to our customers for a few years.

The Global Endpoint Deduplication version 2 offers the following advantages:

Maintenance tools are eased and faster to process. There is only a need to run vacuum and optimize with GED 2
All new data are grouped per job in the containers, which makes backup and restore jobs faster. The performance gain is particularly important on restore jobs. This is due to the data being aligned in the containers.
The Containers structure brings more flexibility in regards to containers files size and hole creation, thus the storage space management is optimized. The new technology should create no fragmentation.
GED 2 is available for production use from Bacula Enterprise version 16.0