I've seen plenty of databases go to container pools and get fair to good
deduplications results even on the first backup.
It should not matter that it is one large object, it will make the chunks
larger but normally you should still get some deduplication as long as it's
not encrypted.
It would seem like something strange that might just be HANA specific?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Arni Snorri Eggertsson <arnie AT gormur DOT 
com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to hear what others are doing in regards of deduplication and large
> files / database backups,
>
> on a recent setup we are taking backups of a SAP Hana system to a direcotry
> container,  I see great dedup stats when the system is doing log backups,
> but I get no deduplication effects when we are doing full backups,
> the database is roughly 250 GB in size,  and it looks like TSM sees the
> object as one file.
>
> ANR0951I Session 550996 for node xxxxx processed 1 files using inline
> deduplication. 251,754,067,764 bytes were reduced by 0 bytes.  (SESSION:
> 550996)
>
>
> I am not 100% sure how to handle this,   ....  are others using directory
> containers at all?  are you using them for TDP Database backups ? any
> thoughts ?
>
>
>
>
> *Arni Snorri Eggertsson*
> arnie AT gormur DOT com
>