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moowho
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12 years ago

Duplicating Backup Set to Deduplication Storage

Hi all! Currently I am backing up a server (multiple drives) to a storage disk M:\  This disk has recently been filling up, and I would benefit from having this server's data deduplicated so I ha...
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    pkh
    12 years ago

    When you duplicate a backup set to a dedup folder, the contents will be deduplicated.  It will not be a mere copying of the .bkf or .img files to the dedup folder.

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pkh
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12 years ago

When you duplicate a backup set to a dedup folder, the contents will be deduplicated.  It will not be a mere copying of the .bkf or .img files to the dedup folder.