06-27-2014 07:45 AM
I've inherited a backup exec solution in a new role and although I'm familiar with the software I haven't used deduplication before.
In the past I've always used the Full + Incremental model but what is the best practice to utilise Deduplication?
The backups in place use disk storage and the deduplication uses seperate disk storage.
Currently the process is ;
Full backup once every week
Incremental each weekday.
Duplicate (full as source) after each Full backup.
Duplicate (incremental as source) after each Incremental backup.
Verify after each stage.
My concern is that the whole process is taking a very long time with each backup progressively missing targets as the week progresses.
I know the benefit of using deduplication is to save the amount of data being backed up but is the model above best practice or should I be losing the Full or incremental stages whilst we have the dedupe stage?
For extra info we are backing various systems including windows file shares, exchange (with GRT) and SQL server. All the backups of each server use the same model as above.
I've read as much documentation as I can but I can'd find the actual best practice model. Apologies if I've missed it.
Thanks
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06-27-2014 08:49 AM
06-27-2014 08:49 AM
06-30-2014 01:04 AM
Thanks for the reply. So am I correct in thinking that Full + Incremental + Dedupe (after each stage) is correct?
06-30-2014 02:00 AM
06-30-2014 02:09 AM
Perfect. That's exactly the information I wanted to know. Thanks.