{"id":46,"date":"2010-02-15T10:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T10:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timbrison.wordpress.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-02-15T10:40:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T10:40:40","slug":"is-de-duplication-the-backup-saviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/02\/is-de-duplication-the-backup-saviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Is de-duplication the backup saviour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, humm.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly the way to go &#8211; removing all the duplicated data before you backup, will certainly reduce the ever increasing burden.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am currently trying a devastatingly efficient method of reducing data volumes &#8211; one which even most large businesses fail to use.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t backup &#8211; delete!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surprisingly, in all the years I have looked after company backups, there has been very little energy directed towards assessing exactly <strong><em>what <\/em><\/strong>is being backed up. The general philosophy has been to capture everything and worry about the data volumes later.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to get this concept across many times &#8211; &#8220;how many copies of command.com do you have in your backups?&#8221; Implying that it would not just be that single file, but the whole operating system, multiple times over.<\/p>\n<p>Still, to this day, I come across folk who whinge about their increasing disk usage, who have no idea <strong><em>what <\/em><\/strong>it is they are actually storing.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am championing DBB procedure &#8211; delete-before-backup and enjoy increased disk space and lower costs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, humm. It&#8217;s certainly the way to go &#8211; removing all the duplicated data before you backup, will certainly reduce the ever increasing burden. However, I am currently trying a devastatingly efficient method of reducing data volumes &#8211; one which even most large businesses fail to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,18],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup","tag-backups","tag-de-duplication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}