Hi Richard, No, the deduplicated data is not recomposed when backing up to a deduplicated copy storage pool.
Recommended reading: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=108134649 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolistoragemanager/Data +deduplication+best+practices+for+Tivoli+Storage+Manager+V6.2 Best regards, Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu> wrote on 2011-09-06 17:40:49: > From: Richard van Denzel <rvanden...@gmail.com> > To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu > Date: 2011-09-06 17:44 > Subject: Deduplication question > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu> > > Hi All, > > Just a question aboutn the internal dedup of TSM. When I dedup a storage > pool and then backup the pool to a dedup copy pool, will the data in the > storage pool backup be transferred deduped or will it get undeduped first, > then transferred and then dedupped again? > > Richard.