Deduplication in ABR11 - I don't feel it is faster
Hello,
Has anyone found anything faster in Dedupe for V11? I have a small office of sales guys with laptops running on a 100mbps network. Here is my scenario...
Windows 7 64bit Pro Computer as a file server. Boot drive is SSD, File drive is 2TB Black WD Drive. 8GB Ram. I know the single 2Tb drive is the bottleneck (easy to figure out VIA resource manager), but here are my questions and situation.
Server (above), 8 sales laptops which might not be on the network at all the time. So what I have done, is set up each laptop to do a Full update on Monday / Thursday OR Tuesday/Friday, and incremental updates on each day that it does not do a full update. I have made a plan for each person, to stagger the updates to 2 hours for a full, and 30minutes for an incremental update. At this point my issue is that when an update is done, Indexing can take a few seconds, to 1.5-2hours.
If I have a Monday Full update, Tuesday and Wednesday Inc update, will the Thursday and Friday backups take less time to Dedupe since the previous archive is sitting in the vault. Is there any types of backups which take less time to index after the fact?
I realize looking back at what I wrote, it is not as clear as I would like, but I am not sure I can explain what I have done in a quick post.
In the end, what I am looking for is how to speed up my backups on my slow network Roughly 11.5MB/S transfer rate. In straight non dedupe backups, I can transfer about 35-40GB per hour. I don't necessarily care about the storage savings (good benefit), but I would rather find a way to speed up my backups (and/or Indexing). What I like about how I thought Dedupe was supposed to work, is that it won't transfer anything over the network that is already there. Hence it would make backups faster.
Would a Tower or GFS plan be more optimized, or would it even matter? I might end up going to a full backup once a week, the only issue I have is I don't want the sales laptops not be on the network for several weeks during the proper timeslot for backups and miss them. I know I could use secure zone, but I figure it would severely slow down laptops with only one drive, am I wrong? Even if so, would I be able to schedule an upload of the secure zone to a network share when they come back to the office?
I appreciate any help or insight. If anyone has a detailed writeup of how dedupe works (for optimization purposes), please let me know. I have read the "best practices" already.
I thought Dedupe was supposed to work, is that it won't transfer anything over the network that is already there. Hence it would make backups faster.
If you have 'disable deduplication at source' not checked (by default it's unchecked and thus enabled) it will do exactly this, as described in user guide. ToH or GFS schemes should not affect performance significantly - it's just a scheme of incrementals and differentials, not some other type of archive.
Even if so, would I be able to schedule an upload of the secure zone to a network share when they come back to the office?
I first thought about replication,
http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ABR11/index.html#11959.html
but it seems to replicate the backup to the next location immediately after it done to the first, not sometimes later.