[TriLUG] Your State of Practice for Backups?

[Greg Cox]

> Thanks for the links ... we've got a NetApp device and our Admin is
> currently telling me we don't have to worry about deduping since the
> NAS will automatically dedupe everything for us. Is that true?

If ONTAP is >= 7.2.4, and you have an a_sis license, and you've done
'sis on /vol/whatever' and there's a 'sis config' to schedule the dedupe.

dedupe isn't line-speed, it's an after-the-fact scheduled job.