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CVWO's avatar
CVWO
Level 2
13 years ago

Least Network Traffic Solution

Hello everyone, I have a quick question: We are planning to set up a new backup system using BackupExec 2010. The plan includes a daily full offsite HDD backup from house A that will run over a w...
  • pkh's avatar
    13 years ago

    Yes. What you are trying to do is possible.  It is called optimised dedup.  You have to have a media server in each location with the dedup option.  You do a backup locally and then use a duplicate job to duplicate the dedup-ed data over to the remote site.  Only the changed data blocks will be transmitted over the WAN link.  You can read about this feature in the Admin Guide.