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David_Hood's avatar
David_Hood
Level 4
12 years ago

Backup to Dedupe then duplicate to tape question

Hi folks,   When i create this type of job, and the "duplicate to tape" stage starts, does BE read the data from the source server and put it on the tape or does it take it from the dedupe store ...
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Deduplication Option
  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    12 years ago

    It takes it from Dedup store

     

    If a Wan Link is involved you have some options

    Remote server on one side of WAN link configured with Client side Dedup, media server on other side of WAN link runs dedup store and tape library

     

    OR

     

    Remote server and media server 1 with dedup folder on one side of link and another media server with dedup folder on the other side of the link that also has teh library

    Then do local backup to deup on first media serevr, Opt Duplication to the other media server across teh WAN and duplicate to tape at the end.

     

    Both have pros and cons

David_Hood's avatar
David_Hood
Level 4
12 years ago

Hi colin

thanks for the clarification

i'm thinking of having a media server at the remote site with a de-dupe store, then duplicating that to a central caso server with anothe dedupe store, then that off to tape. So your second suggestion seems a good fit.

So I suppose a monthly job would be:

Stage 1) - dedupe to the local dedupe store

Stage 2) - duplicate to the remote dedupe store on the caso server

Stage 3) - duplicate to disk

Or would the job need stage 1) removed? I'm not how with my above steps how to specifiy stage 3) to use the dedupe store in stage 2) rather than stage1)?

thanks for the advice