Windows 2012 Dedupe and Netbackup
we have some windows 2012 servers being backed up by Netbackup traditional way with accelerator and also another windows 2012 server using Flashbackup for windows
We however want to switch on Windows 2012 dedupe . is this supported on any of the two types of backups ?
Any thoughts ? Does anyone out there have any experience of this ?
Extract from NBU 7.x OS CL: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH76648 under File System Compatibility
Regarding the Microsoft Windows 2012 NTFS data deduplication feature:
- NTFS deduplication volumes may be backed up to BasicDisk storage units only.
- In NetBackup 7.5.0.6, the files on an NTFS deduplication volume will be backed up in
full and not in optimized form.
- In NetBackup 7.6 and later, Optimized Backup occurs for NTFS deduplication
volumes when possible. Per Microsoft design, any restore from Optimized Backup is
non-optimized. This means, after restore, files are in non-optimized form until the next
optimization is run by the OS schedule. Be sure adequate space is available for
restore.
- By design, TIR is not supported on NTFS deduplication volumes.
- FlashBackup is not supported with NTFS deduplication volumes.
