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criccric
12 years ago

Backup Exec 2012 - Deduplication and SW Compression

Hi all I'm aware that my question was raised a couple of times, but mostly for older versions and well, the answer is still not clear to me. We've just installed the latest Backup Exec 2012 VR...
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    pkh
    12 years ago

    Compressed data deduplicate badly due to the randomness of the data.  If you want to compress your data in the dedup folder, enable compression in the dedup engine.  See this document

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

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pkh
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12 years ago

Compressed data deduplicate badly due to the randomness of the data.  If you want to compress your data in the dedup folder, enable compression in the dedup engine.  See this document

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