Replication, Deduplication and Storage Manager

Both StorNext replication and StorNext deduplication can be used with Storage Manager. The following discussion assumes you are already familiar with replication and deduplication, and also with Storage Manager.

Here are some interesting possibilities:

1. Replicate from a source directory into a target directory where the target directory is within a Storage Manager relation point. Then the replicated files will be stored to tape by Storage Manager. This can be done with deduplicated or non-deduplicated replication.
2. Replicate from a source directory that is managed by Storage Manager. This can be done with deduplicated or non-deduplicated replication. It doesn’t matter for the source if the target directory is also managed by Storage Manager.
3. Use deduplication within a Storage Manager relation point. This means the files will be deduplicated, and the deduplicated data will be stored in the blockpool. In addition, Storage Manager will make tape copies of the files.

Let’s consider replicating into a Storage Manager relation point.