VMWARE data recovery deduplicate Disk Cleanup

I'm testing data 1.2.1 recovery before you install it in production. Everything looks ok, except that I could not find how to delete a backup job data from the backup store itself to make space if I do not need this working at all. Thanks in advance

not that I know a lot of things about it, but the practice of cleaning up a data de-dup store can be difficult.

as the data in a data de-dup store are really just a bit pattern that arose then make a backup of this data block is referenced at least a backup task, it can be referenced by multiple backup jobs in order to clean the store de-dup means understanding if the block is referenced by any other backup jobs or not If not so empty on the block and the restructuring/re-pre-order the disk of destination, would not be an easy task.

You should keep in mind that the backup task is not a traditional backup, it's really a collection of blocks of data with different models that were found at least once, after which it's just a known entity that can be mentioned in the backup jobs later.

the backup task has become so do the not too well more than a bunch of links to blocks known.  so when you delete a job or expiry date the only clean thing is the entity that has defined the work and blocks associated (and the directory Info? for file-level recovery).

Since each DR unit supports 2 destination volumes I took bike destination volumes when it fills up, and it becomes so great that the consistency check takes almost all day, I create a new destination, move jobs and keep the old as archive until the jobs have expired , or are considered too old to be useful, then unmount the destination disk and get rid of (or move it to a location of storage just in case).

I was originally of traditional thinking that remove old backup jobs should reduce the destination disk, but when it turns out there no, even when all the backup jobs have been deleted, then it starts to make me think about how it really works.

There is a cleanup job casual that tracks that may be releasing part of the datablock storage but since it really does not report how many of the destination disk is actually used, other than the size of the backup report which is still way less than the physical size of the destination, it is not really so or the amount of free space that may exist in the destination disk.

Wayne

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