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Re: [Veritas-bu] Shared Stroage Options (SSO) with Vitual Tape Library (VTL)

2008-08-08 13:43:19
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Shared Stroage Options (SSO) with Vitual Tape Library (VTL)
From: "Ed Wilts" <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:23:17 -0500
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 7:43 AM, spaldam <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

  since it's also does de-duplication, we cannot use multiplexing or we loose the effectiveness of the de-duplication.

I don't know why this would be true - what blocksize does your appliance use to de-dupe on?  If it's de-duping 4K blocks and you're multiplexing with 256K data buffers, you should be able to de-dupe just fine.
 
   .../Ed

Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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