BEdupe Overview
As IT departments struggle with the ability to manage the ever-growing volume of data generated at their individual organizations, deduplication has become a necessary requirement to efficiently handle increasing data loads.
BEdupe is Backup-Enhanced Deduplication: a deduplication software solution that enhances backup and recovery operations for your host system, such as IBM i.
BEdupe deduplication eliminates duplicate data, reducing the amount of storage needed for backup operations, which results in significant savings in your IT costs.
BEdupe: Backup-Enhanced Deduplication for IBM i
- Maximizes storage capacity reducing IT costs
- Reduces offsite backup traffic by up to 20 to 1
- Reduces bandwidth requirements and network traffic
- Shortens recovery times
- Deduplication can be performed inline or post-processing
- Stronger data protection and improved IT operations
- Use existing bandwidth to backup to a remote server or the cloud
- Makes replication achievable and manageable
- Recover from a disaster faster
- Provides block level deduplication
BEdupe and LaserVault ViTL
BEdupe is an integral feature of the LaserVault ViTL virtual tape backup and recovery solution.
- Using ViTL with BEdupe creates an all-in-one backup and recovery solution for Power System environments
- Current ViTL customers can immediately begin using BEdupe
- Easily replicate data to another LaserVault server running ViTL
- Streamline backups while eliminating wasted storage space
- Recover and restore data faster and easier
Frequently Asked Questions
BEdupe is Backup-Enhanced Deduplication: a deduplication software feature that is part of the LaserVault ViTL virtual tape library.
Backups typically store large quantities of redundant data, which wastes storage space. BEdupe deduplication eliminates this duplicate data, reducing the amount of storage needed for backup operations, which results in significant savings in your IT costs.
Since BEdupe only stores unique data, you have more disk space available to allocate for your backups.
BEdupe reduces storage space usage without slowing down your backup by providing seamless deduplication.
BEdupe eliminates duplicate data blocks when you back up and transfer data. Once a unique block of backup data is sent offsite, it never has to be sent again.
BEdupe reduces bandwidth requirements and network traffic for replication of data.
BEdupe optimizes storage without sending additional data over your network.
BEdupe works by comparing blocks of data to detect duplicates. Once Bedupe finds a block of data that already exists in the deduplication repository, the block is replaced with a Virtual Index Pointer linking the new pseudo-block to the existing block of data.
When you restore a file, BEdupe recreates the file from its Reparse Point file, using its own special index and unique chunk store.
Being a feature of LaserVault ViTL BEdupe shares the same system requirements as ViTL. For optimum performance internally attached NVMe storage is recommended for storage of index data. Internally attached SSD is recommended for storage of block data. Internally attached spin disk can be used however performance will be slower. A minimum of 64 GB of RAM is required and more will improve performance for sites with large data sets.