Veeam and Windows 2012 Dedupe?

[Lanz]

Is anyone using Server 2012 with de-duplication as their Veeam repository? We worked out we'd save so much disk space if we implemented, but because its a relatively new feature, I'm a little wary about storing all our backups on it. I'm thinking when SP1 comes out for 2012, I'd give it a go, but when is that out?

Thoughts?

 

[wasc]

Is anyone using Server 2012 with de-duplication as their Veeam repository? We worked out we'd save so much disk space if we implemented, but because its a relatively new feature, I'm a little wary about storing all our backups on it. I'm thinking when SP1 comes out for 2012, I'd give it a go, but when is that out?

Thoughts?

Been using it for a while now - certainly works well - we currently have 48 TB data stored on a server with 11Tb of disk space so the dedupe does work. You will need to do regular maintenance if you have a high rate of change. This is a Start-DedupJob command through powershell with the -Type GarbageCollection command.

That basically deletes all blocks from the dedupe database which are no longer on disk so it reduces the dedupe db size to reclaim disk space.

It also can be an idea to periodically run the Optimization type job with the -Full parameter

For us, it works well. You can also undo it should you decide to revert back using the -Type Unoptimization command, so you can revert your data to the non-deduplicated state should you try it and not like it.

 

[Deleted member 138126]

Bear in mind that the dedupe is not on the fly, so you need enough spare capacity to store the full data that is backed up until the dedupe scheduled task kicks in.

 

[Tarqy]

Bear in mind that the dedupe is not on the fly, so you need enough spare capacity to store the full data that is backed up until the dedupe scheduled task kicks in.

This is the reason we decided against it, Ended up with a DD160 which is an excellent piece of kit.