FSRM and Data Deduplication may be adversely affected when you use Robocopy /MIR in Windows Server 2012 and 2016

Posted on 19th December 2016 by michaelf

Summary When you use the Robocopy utility together with the /MIR option in Windows Server 2012, Robocopy mirrors the source directory to the destination directory. First, all contents in the destination directory that do not exist in the source directory are deleted. Then, all files that the user can access are copied from the source directory to Read more about FSRM and Data Deduplication may be adversely affected when you use Robocopy /MIR in Windows Server 2012 and 2016[…]

Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Depulication

Posted on 10th February 201610th February 2016 by michaelf

What Data Deduplication Does Data deduplication optimizes the file data on the volume by performing the following steps: Segment the data in each file into small variable-sized chunks. Identify duplicate chunks. Maintain a single copy of each chunk. Compress the chunks. Replace redundant copies of each chunk with a reference to a single copy. Replace Read more about Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Depulication[…]