Dedupe

[Jawloms]

I have a file server with deduplication on it. 1.36TB partition. It says it's saving me about 31% at the moment. Marvelous! It had around 38GB free earlier. I moved off 50GB of photos which I know aren't duplicated anywhere else on the drive and now I have 29GB free. What did I miss? Is there a clean up utility I can run to tidy something? I don't have as many previous versions available as I would like at the moment.

 

Thank you

 

Stuart

[localzuk]

Deduplication opimisation runs nightly, rather than in an active way.

[Jawloms]

Thanks, I'll check tomorrow, if not I'll be back on here

[ADMaster]

You can manually run any dedupe job with start-dedupejob

 

You want to run garbage collection, by default it runs weekly, so you may want to start if yourself it you need the disk space.

 

 

Start-Dedupe

 

Job Types

[Arthur]

You can manually run any dedupe job with start-dedupejob

I do that sometimes when I get impatient too.

 

$Drives = "D:,H:"

Start-DedupJob -Type Optimization -Full -Memory 75 -Priority High -Volume $Drives -Wait
Start-DedupJob -Type GarbageCollection -Full -Memory 75 -Priority High -Volume $Drives -Wait
Start-DedupJob -Type Scrubbing -Full -Memory 75 -Priority High -Volume $Drives -Wait

Get-DedupStatus

 

Source: http://deploymentresearch.com/Research/Post/397/Running-the-Data-DeDuplication-process-in-PowerShell