Data Deduplication & Offline Files

[KibosJ]

Hey Guys,

 

Just wondering if anyone had tried this and could let me know if it works.

 

I've enabled data deduplication for our student user folders and it appears to be working well, around 1TB saved and I now want to enable it for staff, but we have offline line files enabled.

 

Does anyone know if it has any negative effects on offline files or whether it is safe to enable?

 

Thanks,

 

James

[Steve21]

Offline files are stored on the users machine assuming you mean offline files? So they're un-deduped anyway

 

Steve

[KibosJ]

Offline files are stored on the users machine assuming you mean offline files? So they're un-deduped anyway

 

Steve

 

That's what I mean, just wanted to double check that they are properly undeduped on the machine Thanks @Steve21

[Steve21]

Yep, anything that transfers off a dedup'd server becomes undeduped (even if going to another server that's got dedup on, then just gets dedup'd again effectively). So once it leaves the server no different in any way in regards to that

 

We have dedup on every file server and use offline etc for laptops and never had any probs

 

Steve

[KibosJ]

Yep, anything that transfers off a dedup'd server becomes undeduped (even if going to another server that's got dedup on, then just gets dedup'd again effectively). So once it leaves the server no different in any way in regards to that

 

We have dedup on every file server and use offline etc for laptops and never had any probs

 

Steve

Thank you for your help What age do you set on your files?

[Steve21]

We run 3 days for the primary two (students/staff) as find a lot of files get deleted fairly quickly so no point deduping them that fast

 

Have it set for students/staff only to background optimization overnight, and things like staff shared/admin shared etc run more often as less likely to delete things on there (and often huge dumps of files by staff for new lessons etc)

 

Steve

[KibosJ]

That's great, that's what I am doing at the moment. Thank you very much