Backup VM and files will be deduplicated?

[bromac]

Hello
I was looking through the documentation, but I don't think I found an answer to my problem.

I'm not quite sure if I can put two different types of backups - VM and files into one datastore.
if yes, what PBS will do when:
If I run backup vm and next backup over proxmox-backup-client from inside this vm, is this two backups will be deduplicated?

If can't add two types of backup to this same datastore, but need add to other so this two datastore will not be deduplicated?

 

[fabian]

Hello
I was looking through the documentation, but I don't think I found an answer to my problem.

I'm not quite sure if I can put two different types of backups - VM and files into one datastore.

yes, that is possible

if yes, what PBS will do when:
If I run backup vm and next backup over proxmox-backup-client from inside this vm, is this two backups will be deduplicated?

only in the rather unlikely case that chunks match - VM and host backups have a very different view of the data (block vs file) and use different chunking strategies (fixed- vs dynamic-size)