I'd like to get a better handle on how a dedupped Windows 2012 volume acts through the backup chain.
Say I have a 2012 VM with 100gb of data which has been dedupped down to 10gb.
When I back up that VM via Veeam am I only going to be backing up 10gb of data? Since Veeam doesn't care what's in the VM itself it seems like it would. However, at that point, can Veeam still restore guest files from that VM?
I now have that 10gb backup sitting in my repository. How much space will it be taking up there? Since the data is already dedupped I would think Veeam would be able to dedup it again and will also have issues compressing it, and as a result it would take up more repository storage than a 10gb non-dedupped VM.
When I dump that .VBK file to tape, since neither Veeam's host system nor Backup Exec (or whatever software is being used) cares what's in the 10gb VBK file created from backing up that VM, I'll only be putting 10gb of data on the tape?
On a related note:
If I implement a Windows 2012 VM with a dedupped volume for file storage, will I only be reducing my storage utilization on my SAN, or will it reduce it on my SAN, my Veeam repository, and my tapes?
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Re: Backing up dedupped Windows 2012 server?
No, as deduplication feature works inside the guest, meanwhile, Veeam works on virtual disk level. However, having deduplication feature enable inside the guest affects seriously amount of changed blocks, so,you can expect large incements of this VM.When I back up that VM via Veeam am I only going to be backing up 10gb of data?
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Re: Backing up dedupped Windows 2012 server?
Roughly how big of a change would we be looking at?
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Re: Backing up dedupped Windows 2012 server?
It seems to be unpredictable thing. Only actual tests are likely to give approximate numbers. Thanks.
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