server 2012r2 data deduplication on ViceVersa target

[thepittman]

Do you have any experience using the dedupe that comes with server on the vice versa target locations? Are there any considerations we need to thing of? With a 500 employee business we are looking a ways a trying to reduce the amount of disk space ViceVersa backups are using. Thanks in advance for any feedback..

[TGRMN Software]

We have no experience with it, sorry, but it sounds quite useful and will be transparent to ViceVersa.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/05/21/introduction-to-data-deduplication-in-windows-server-2012.aspx

One thing to notice:
"Even with RAID and redundancy implemented in your system, data corruption risks exist due to various disk anomalies, controller errors, firmware bugs or even environmental factors, like radiation or disk vibrations. Deduplication raises the impact of a single chunk corruption since a popular chunk can be referenced by a large number of files. Imagine a chunk that is referenced by 1000 files is lost due to a sector error; you would instantly suffer a 1000 file loss."

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