VB&R Dedup and Windows Server Dedup

[AdrianHinton]

Hi,

When we first deployed VB&R 7, we had 7 backup jobs with multiple VM's per job. We then needed to reconfigure the jobs to copy at different times so we ended up with a job per vm.

Would this have a negative impact on dedup savings across the board? Do Veeam recommend Jobs with multiple VMs over Jobs with single VMs?

[dellock6]

Hi Adrian,
Veeam deduplication is done per job, so surely having multiple VMs in the same jobs is a good choice. You can group them by operating systems for example so the common bits of the OS have more chances to be deduplicated.

[veremin]

I also can see the Windows Server Deduplication reference, so the following topic might be useful for you: Best Practice for MS Server 2012 DeDup Repo. Thanks.

[AdrianHinton]

Thank you

[veremin]

You're welcome. Should any other help be needed, don't hesitate to ask.

[AdrianHinton]

You should know me by now, I never hesitate to ask

[veremin]

I will make a note!