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[If you go to the Unitrends web site, you can find a paper that discusses all of these at greater length.] How to Get Duped by Deduplication: Blindly Believe Data Reduction Ratios In a white paper and...Read More
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How to Get Duped by Deduplication: Ignore the Impact of Encryption Encryption is the process of transforming data to make it unreadable to anyone except those who possess a key that will decrypt that...Read More
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An Overview of Local Versus Global Deduplication with Respect to Backup Earlier it was noted that one way that deduplication device vendors handled some of the shortcomings of their approach was to s...Read More
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Overview of Hardware Versus Software Deduplication for Backup (Preface: This section refers to hardware deduplication at the storage device – which is the most common form of hardware deduplica...Read More
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Overview of File- and Block-Level Deduplication for Backup File-level deduplication works at the file level by eliminating duplicate files; block-level deduplication works at a block level (which may...Read More
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Overview of Inline Versus Post-Processing Deduplication for Backup Inline deduplication means that the deduplication occurs while the backup data is being ingested by the backup device. Post-processin...Read More
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Overview of Source Versus Target Deduplication for Backup Source deduplication means that deduplication occurs at the client (i.e., the server, PC, workstation – but not at the SAN or NAS) bein...Read More
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I got a great note from one of our system engineers (Mark Jordan, a terrific SE who does a great job) this week concerning the use of BMR (BareMetal Restore/Recovery, sometimes called Bare Metal Resto...Read More
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In the previous post on backup, compression, encryption, and deduplication I called out a great post by Stephen Foskett on this subject and promised I’d talk a little bit about what our company ...Read More
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In the past few days, I’ve posted some fairly introductory articles concerning this subject; namely Backup and Data Reduction (Compression and Deduplication) Basics Backup, Compression, Deduplic...Read More