[Solved] Deduplication of tape backup?

[Kavus Kazian]

I am curious to know if data backed up onto an LTO-6 tape will still be deduplicated. I have bid on a brand new LTO-6 drive (fingers crossed!) and a lot more would fit if it stays deduplicated. It nearly cut the storage used in half when it did GC.

 

[sterzy]

Hi,

to my knowledge yes, the data should stay deduplicated. Basically all the chunks, indices and manifests will just be copied to tape. Thus, the data will stay deduplicated.

 

[Kavus Kazian]

That's great, thanks! What a wonderful product you've all made.

 

[sterzy]

Thanks! Please mark the thread as "solved" so others who have the same question can find this thread more easily