Hi, I'm trying to get my head round deduplication. Here is my plan. We want to implement backups over the WAN from remote offices back to head office. I believe deduplication can do this.
We have head office with the main backup server, and 3 remote offices, each with a backup server. The remote offices have 2/3 servers per office backed up.
I believe I would need a CASO license for the head office server. And also Dedup licesnes for each site backup server.
If the above is correct then that sounds fine. My question is regarding extra storage that would be required on the site servers/Main office server.
Instead of backing up to tape on the site server I assume it backs up to a file on the disk? Does it just replicate all the data backed up? so, if I back up 10gb on the site servers, would I need a spare 10gb on the site backup server to hold this. How is the backup data stored ?
Any help appreciated.
Regards
Joe