As promised, I looked into applying the Birthday Paradox logic to de-duplication. I blogged about my results here:
http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/145/47/ Long and short of it: If you've got less than 95 Exabytes of data, I think you'll be OK. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu