Deduplication Support

The following table lists the Agents that support Deduplication.

MediaAgent-Side Deduplication

Source-Side Deduplication

Comments

Backup

Active Directory

tick

tick

DB2

tick

tick

DB2 DPF

tick

tick

DB2 pureScale

tick

tick

Documentum

tick

tick

Exchange Database

tick

tick

Exchange Mailbox (Classic)

tick

tick

By default, the message body is not deduplicated. Contact Customer Support if you need to deduplicate the message body.

Exchange Public Folder

tick

tick

The message body is not deduplicated. Only the message attachments are deduplicated.

Google Mail and Google Drive

tick

GPFS

tick

tick

Hadoop

tick

tick

IBM i File System

tick

tick

IBM Notes Database

tick

tick

IBM Notes Document

tick

tick

Image Level

Informix

tick

tick

Macintosh File System

tick

tick

Microsoft SharePoint Server

tick

tick

Deduplication ratio can be low due to the nature of Microsoft output files during site collection backup.

Microsoft SQL Server

tick

tick

Microsoft Windows File Systems

tick

tick

MySQL

tick

tick

NAS

tick

See FAQ - Deduplication to Disk for deduplication of NAS backups.

NFS

tick

tick

OES File System

tick

tick

OpenVMS File System

Supported only on the proxy client and the MediaAgent.

Oracle

tick

tick

You can assign a deduplicated storage policy for log backups. However, the Oracle agent considers the storage policy as a non-deduplicated storage policy and does not deduplicate the logs.

Oracle RAC

tick

tick

PostgreSQL

tick

tick

Salesforce

tick

tick

SAP for MaxDB

SAP for Oracle

tick

tick

SAP HANA

tick

tick

Restrictions may apply when you use dedpulication. For more information, see SAP HANA Best Practices.

Sybase

tick

tick

Unix File Systems

tick

tick

Archive

Domino Mailbox Archiver

tick

tick

Exchange Compliance Archiver

tick

tick

Exchange Mailbox

tick

tick

By default, the message body is not deduplicated. Contact Customer Support if you need to deduplicate the message body.

Exchange Mailbox Archiver

Exchange Public Folder Archiver

tick

tick

OnePass for Celerra

tick

tick

OnePass for Exchange Mailbox (Classic)

tick

tick

By default, the message body is not deduplicated. Contact Customer Support if you need to deduplicate the message body.

OnePass for Hitachi NAS (BlueArc)

tick

tick

OnePass for NetApp

tick

tick

OnePass for Network Shares

tick

tick

OnePass for Unix

tick

tick

OnePass for Windows

tick

tick

Oracle Archiving

tick

Replication

ContinuousDataReplicator

Supported only on the destination client.

Virtualization

Amazon

tick

tick

Citrix Xen

tick

tick

Docker

tick

FusionCompute

tick

tick

KVM

tick

tick

Microsoft Azure

tick

tick

Microsoft Hyper-V

tick

tick

Nutanix AHV

tick

tick

OpenStack

tick

tick

Oracle Cloud

Oracle VM

tick

tick

oVirt

tick

tick

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

tick

tick

VMware

tick

tick

Laptop

Laptop Backup (Linux)

tick

tick

Laptop Backup (Macintosh)

tick

tick

Laptop Backup (Windows)

tick

tick

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