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adrian11
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BE 16 :What are the difference between open storage and disk deduplication storage ???

Hi everyone , 

regarding on my question - What are the difference between open storage and disk deduplication storage. where else  can be used the deduplication storage ? 

 

 

Thanks , 

 

 

  • The dedup engine built into BE is used to provide dedup for dedup disk storage on ordinary disks with no built-in dedup engine

    OST (Open Storage Technology) is a way for BE to interface with disk devices which had their own built-in dedup engine.

  • The dedup engine built into BE is used to provide dedup for dedup disk storage on ordinary disks with no built-in dedup engine

    OST (Open Storage Technology) is a way for BE to interface with disk devices which had their own built-in dedup engine.

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      adrian11
      Level 3

      Thanks and best regards  pkh  , 

       

      now my second question is what if i used an open storage ? you've said that the ost has its own built in deduplication as well as in the backup exec has its own deduplication too . is there any conflict with the two if i used an open storage ?  and what type of storage that is used for "OST"  would it be  tape or  a disk ???

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        pkh
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        As I said earlier, OST allows BE to use the device's dedup engine, so it is not using its own engine.

        There is no such thing as tape dedup.