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October 27th, 2017 07:00

Windows 2012 R2 Dedup and NetWorker

Is there a risk on backing up with Networker a disk that is being deduplicated by Windows?

What if NW is connected to a DataDomain?

  • camilg

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    Posted March 12th, 2018 14:00

    There is an article where they explain a possible Data loss when recovering individual files from a backed up Windows Server 2012 deduplication volume. (link to the article below)

    https://support.emc.com/kb/453689

    According to the article is safe to backup Windows Deduplicated volumes if you use the following string

    VSS:NSR_DEDUP_NON_OPTIMIZED=yes

    ** For Networker 8.x

    Within NMC navigate to:

    Confiiguration> Clients > right click on clients>properties> Apps & Modules>Save operations box

    Add the string

    VSS:NSR_DEDUP_NON_OPTIMIZED=yes


    All Windows Server 2012 deduplication volumes will be backed up unoptimized, and will be recoverable, when this flag is set

    **Also be aware of the changes in your backup after turning off the optimization, as you may face increases in the amount of data backed up.