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Avamar does dedupe to tape

Written by W. Curtis Preston Saturday, 30 January 2010 02:08

Up until today I thought that CommVault was the only backup product that was storing deduped data to tape.  It turns out the Avamar now does it too.

The weird thing is that this little tidbit was put way down at the end of a press release that didn't mention it in its title.  Read that press release.  I did when it came out.  But I didn't notice this tiny little sentence at the end:

"Finally, EMC has increased Avamar backup capacity by more than 60 percent and added new deduplicated export to tape functionality."

For a product that has maintained a "we don't need no stinking tape" stance for quite a while now, I think this is bigger news than a single sentence at the end of a long press release.  I already made my peace with dedupe to tape, as long as it's used in the right way -- as long term storage, not for operational recovery.

So I'm glad to see that Avamar also has this functionality as well.  And kudos to Scott Waterhouse for pointing out my miss and telling me on Twitter.

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