Backup Exec 2010 small business edition and deduplication
We're trying to reduce our Backup Exec 2010 R3 backup size and I've been told about the deduplication option. I dont have the option to run it, any ideas why?
Or any other suggestions to redu...
If you want to use dedup, you need to purchase the option. Install the dedup option licence and select the option in BE. To use use dedup, your media server must be a 64-bit machine. The dedup option is quite demanding in terms of RAM and CPU. See this document
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO21767
Before looking at the dedup option, you can look at doing incremental or differential backups to reduce the size of your backups. See my article below
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/pros-and-cons-various-backup-schemes
You might also want to look at the Archiving Option of BE to archive your inactive/old files.
