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IamBLaney's avatar
13 years ago

DeDuplication and Encryption

I have read that Backup Exec 2010 does  not allow deduplication of encrypted jobs.  Can you, however, Encrypt a job that has already been deduplicated? We would like to make D2D backups and then co...
  • pkh's avatar
    13 years ago

    You should not use software encryption  in your job.  Encrypted data dedup badly.  Instead you should enable encryption in the dedup folder itself.

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH124682

     

    You should also not use software compression in your dedup job.  Compresssed data also dedup badly.  To enable compression in your dedup folder, see this document

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH127779