Questions tagged [deduplication]
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Duplicate files with the server name on a File Server
For some time it has been happening to me that in a file server, where I have a shared folder with the departments of the company, in some folders it has been duplicating some files by adding the name of the server to final.
It does not happen…
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Deduplication inside VHDX
I want to use deduplication on files coming from a vhdx, but it doesn't seem to work as it doesn't optimize space. I tested it on another 'normal' file system (containing xlsx, pst, doc files, etc.) and it works fine. I'm wondering: could it be that…
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Recover files from deduplicated volume in Windows Storage Server 2016
We have a Windows Storage Server 2016 having some volumes with Storage Deduplication enabled.
Its OS crashed so we had to re-install the OS (couldn't restore from backup).
There are some files which seem to be deduplicated before reinstall. When we…
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How to dedup existing rsnapshot on ZFS?
I have a backup box using ZFS (on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) where I use rsnapshot to back up a number of websites. These websites have a fair amount of duplicated data.
I have just enabled de-duplication of the ZFS volume, but I am at a loss as to how to…
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Windows hardlinks - why it consumes same space as original file
Im using finddupe tool to de-duplicate files and save some space on HDD.
But checking before and after operation I cant see any free space released - see below.
Can somebody advise what is wrong here ?
D:\TEMP\1>dir
30.09.2021 12:50 …
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Workaround for Windows Search/Indexing on a deduplicated volume
According to Microsoft, Microsoft Windows Server 2019 still does not support Windows Search on Data Deduplication enabled volumes (source):
Windows Search doesn't support Data Deduplication. Data Deduplication uses reparse points, which Windows…
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ZFS send/receive fails consistently with "Input/output error"
I have a ZFS disk with deduplication turned on. I have copied data from many other old hard disks onto this ZFS disk, ultimately with the intention of getting rid of all the original disks. I need to make a backup copy of the ZFS disk though, but…
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Find file duplicates and convert them into links [WINDOWS]
My users tend to save tons of duplicate files what consumes more and more space and generate HW and archiving cost.
Im thinking to create some scheduled job, to:
find duplicate files (check file MD5 sum, not only filename / size)
leave only 1…
Maciej
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