Hi Silver, The downside of client-side dedupe is actually a combination of several things.
1. The client does the dedupe calculations etc. this means that it takes CPU resources on the client which it might not have. 2. Sometimes, client-side dedupe is chosen because of bandwidth limitations to the backup server (remote offices etc). In case of a large restore all files will have to be sent from the backup server to the client anyway, and this can be almost impossible because of the time it will take. That's the RTO side of it. 3. Partial restores can only be made to the client that did the backup, not to another client if necessary(redirected recover). There are probably more, but these are just what I can think of straight away. /tony +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by tony.alb...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users