I'll chime in here too. We are using it in a similar way to Steven (non-VTL, 
NFS mount to AIX/TSM server). 

We are getting about 10:1 compression overall and the offsite replication is a 
big plus.

TSM says it backs up about 3TB/night, and after dedupe/compression we keep our 
offsite DD typically within 1 hour of being in sync with only a 40Mb link to 
our collocation facility.

Ben


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All

Just to chip in here.

We have 3 DDR's (2 at remote sites and one in a main DC)  and are seeing 
4.4:1 compression.  That's with a reasonable mix of data and no client 
side compression.

Whilst dedupe isn't superb, but as we know it's generally lower with TSM 
anyway, a big advantage is DDR to DDR offsite replication for DR.  Our 
nightly backup gets about 10:1 dedupe and is small enough to offsite 
without massive network connectivity.

We also use NFS for TSM connectivity, which seems to work very well.

Steven

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On Jan 12, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Kelly Lipp wrote:

> We have a customer that insisted on buying one of these for his TSM 
environment. Promised 20:1 dedup.  He saw about five to one.  He was in 
our Level 2 class telling the story.  At the end he said he wouldn't buy 
it again.  I made him repeat that part of the story...

DataDomain's "Best Practices" guide for TSM tells customers not to let 
nodes compress data. I have to wonder how much compressing the data or not 
alters the dedup ratio. I'm not at all sure that we're going enforce a "no 
compression" policy for our clients. 

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