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yobole
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10 years ago

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 Wind...
  • Marianne's avatar
    10 years ago

    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.