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Storage Policy Media Size difference for copies

  • January 23, 2025
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we had exchange archive to the primary storage policy which was hyperscale x 1.5 , and an aux copy to windows with local disk  , the jobs in the primary  copy is cleared .

hyperscale x primary → first aux copy

now as part of the hardware refresh we introduced new windows server and copied from second copy 

first aux copy → second copy 

but we are seeing a diffrence in the media size , 0 tb diffrence 

 

first copy 

second copy

 

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@Ajal 

When deduplication is performed on the Primary, hash comparisons for blocks of job can independently verify which blocks already exist and which need to be created in DDB.

However, during an Aux Copy, multiple jobs are being copied simultaneously across various streams. We don’t deduplicate between streams running concurrently, as they are processed at the same time.

This is a significant reason why the sizes won’t match. While subsequent streams will deduplicate against what has already been written, they won’t deduplicate against other concurrent streams.

Because of this reason, we may see such a discrepancy.


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  • January 24, 2025

@Abhishek Narulkar  make sense , but the difference i put here is between two aux copies , not between primary and aux copy ,

 

in this case how to make sure to achieve the amx ddb , by reducing the stream to 1 ?