Using data deduplication products as part of an IT disaster recovery strategy
Data deduplication has gained a lot of traction in the data backup and recovery world over the past few years. When integrating data deduplication products into your IT disaster recovery strategy, there are a number of things you need to consider.
Should you use source dedupe or target dedupe? Which one is better for disaster recovery? If you are backing up your data to tape and disk, are there other issues to keep in mind?
W. Curtis Preston, independent backup expert and executive editor for SearchDisasterRecovery.com, discusses source and target deduplication, how these approaches differ, what that means from a disaster recovery perspective and more in this Q&A.
See Using data deduplication products as part of an IT disaster recovery strategy.
