limitation on deduplication storage folder

[Yan_Thung_Seng]

Dear all,
We wish to know what is the limitation on the deduplication storage folder. Wish experience users can share with us on...
1. 16TB limitation on the pre-dedupe data.
2. can only be created at local HDD (SAN). I tried to create it on CIFS share but it doesn't work.
3. other....

thanks

[Aidan_Finley]

Hello Yan -

Limitations are as follows:

1. The disk target must *appear* local - that is, must be direct attached storage, iSCSI, or SAN storage

2. The disk target must use NTFS

3. A deduplication storage folder can contain up to 16 TB of *deduplicated* data

Symantec also recommends that the Storage Path and the Database Path be hosted on separate physical drives or sets of drives.  This is a performance optimization and is not necessary, only recommended, expecially in larger environments.

Thanks,

Aidan Finley
Sr. Product Manager, Backup Exec

[Yan_Thung_Seng]

thousand thank!