The following table lists the agents that support deduplication.
Note
You can assign a deduplicated storage policy for database log file backups. However, the database agents consider the storage policy as a non-deduplicated storage policy and do not deduplicate the logs.
MediaAgent-Side Deduplication |
Source-Side Deduplication |
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Backup |
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Active Directory |
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DB2 |
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DB2 DPF |
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DB2 pureScale |
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Documentum |
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Exchange Database |
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Exchange Mailbox (Classic) |
By default, the message body is not deduplicated. Contact Customer Support if you need to deduplicate the message body. |
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Exchange Public Folder |
The message body is not deduplicated. Only the message attachments are deduplicated. |
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Google Mail and Google Drive |
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GPFS |
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Hadoop |
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IBM i File System |
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IBM Notes Database |
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IBM Notes Document |
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Image Level |
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Informix |
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Macintosh File System |
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Microsoft SharePoint Server |
Deduplication ratio can be low due to the nature of Microsoft output files during site collection backup. |
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Microsoft SQL Server |
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Microsoft Windows File Systems |
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MySQL |
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NAS |
See FAQ - Deduplication to Disk for deduplication of NAS backups. |
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NFS |
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OES File System |
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OpenVMS File System |
Supported only on the proxy client and the MediaAgent. |
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Oracle |
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Oracle RAC |
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PostgreSQL |
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Salesforce |
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SAP for MaxDB |
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SAP for Oracle |
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SAP HANA |
Restrictions may apply when you use deduplication. For more information, see SAP HANA Best Practices. |
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Sybase |
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Unix File Systems |
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Archive |
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Domino Mailbox Archiver |
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Exchange Compliance Archiver |
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Exchange Mailbox |
By default, the message body is not deduplicated. Contact Customer Support if you need to deduplicate the message body. |
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Exchange Mailbox Archiver |
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Exchange Public Folder Archiver |
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OnePass for Celerra |
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OnePass for Exchange Mailbox (Classic) |
By default, the message body is not deduplicated. Contact Customer Support if you need to deduplicate the message body. |
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OnePass for Hitachi NAS (BlueArc) |
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OnePass for NetApp |
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OnePass for Network Shares |
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OnePass for Unix |
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OnePass for Windows |
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Oracle Archiving |
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Replication |
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ContinuousDataReplicator |
Supported only on the destination client. |
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Virtualization |
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Amazon |
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Citrix Xenserver |
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Huawei FusionCompute |
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Google Cloud Platform |
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KVM |
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Microsoft Azure |
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Microsoft Hyper-V |
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Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) |
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OpenStack |
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure |
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Oracle VM |
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oVirt |
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Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) |
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VMware |
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Laptop |
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Laptop Backup (Linux) |
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Laptop Backup (Macintosh) |
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Laptop Backup (Windows) |