Re: Dedup rate on SAP backups

2017-06-01 Thread Marcel Anthonijsz
Hi Eric,

I find this redbook, although not for IBM SP, a nice read on best practices
for dedup: IBM ProtecTIER Implementation and Best Practices Guide,
SG24-8025-03
It is aimed at IBM ProtecTIER but a lot of these best practices are valid
for _any_ deduplication implementation:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248025.html?Open

Page 334 (section 20.6.9) mentions:

   - Disable multiplexing.
   - Use as many backup sessions in parallel as possible, not exceeding
   MAXNUMMP
   - Disable compression by configuring RL_COMPRESSION=NO (no-brainer!)

Let us know if this helps...



2017-05-19 16:47 GMT+02:00 Loon, Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM <
eric-van.l...@klm.com>:

> Hi guys!
> Now that we are testing with TSM deduplication where we have always used a
> Data Domain in the past, I discovered that our SAP nodes have a very low
> dedup rate. After some Googling it looks like this has something to do with
> the random way SAP sends its data to the backup client. If backup files
> physically differ every backup run, I can imagine that this will have a
> negative impact on deduplication.
> Does anybody know if this is true and if there is a way to influence this
> behavior?
> Thanks for any help in advance and have a nice weekend!
> Kind regards,
> Eric van Loon
> Air France/KLM Storage Engineering
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Dedup rate on SAP backups

2017-05-19 Thread Loon, Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM
Hi guys!
Now that we are testing with TSM deduplication where we have always used a Data 
Domain in the past, I discovered that our SAP nodes have a very low dedup rate. 
After some Googling it looks like this has something to do with the random way 
SAP sends its data to the backup client. If backup files physically differ 
every backup run, I can imagine that this will have a negative impact on 
deduplication.
Does anybody know if this is true and if there is a way to influence this 
behavior?
Thanks for any help in advance and have a nice weekend!
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage Engineering

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