Tip of the Day: Deduplication Cheat Sheet
Today’s tip…
Here is a quick reference sheet for Windows Server 2012 deduplication.
- The Dedup feature is not installed by default
- Dedup is a Server only feature
- Dedup is not supported on:
- FAT volumes
- Boot or System Volumes
- Remote Drives
- Cluster Shared Volumes (supported on non CSV volumes on cluster)
- ReFS
- 3rd party file systems
- Dedup
skips the following file types:- Encrypted Files
- Files with 'extended attributes'
- Files < 64KB in size, reparse points
- Dedup volumes can be backed up and restored optimized
NOTE: In Window 2012 R2 support is added for Cluster Shared Volumes.