Backup Exec Deduplication Best Practices documentation and product enhancement request...
Documenatation Enhancement
The "Best practices for Backup Exec Deduplication Option" documentation mentions that you should not "delete any files from the deduplication disk storage device. To reclaim space from the deduplication disk storage device, refer to the following tech note: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000017049"
This part of the BPG should be expanded to mention that you should schedule regular deduplication storage maintenance to carry out manual reclamation and compaction on the store (depending on how busy your deduplication storage is, but at least annually). This would help a large proportion of your deduplication users from getting burnt by a deduplication store that fills up the Windows volume it's on.
Product Enhancement
Please, please, please, take a look at making the deduplication clean-up, reclamation and compaction process better. Currently we have to sit there and run commands, wait for hours, checking with other commands on progress, then rerun and recheck, for hours and then move on to the next step in the process, where we do the same thing, with a different set of commands. This makes the process take hours if not days, when this should be a process where we receive an email, from the Backip Exec notification system, that already exists, that each step has completed. i.e. Extend the Backup Exec notification system to cover the deduplication cleanup/maintenance processes.
