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Updated Data Domain documentation links

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Yesterday, EMC announced updates to it's Data Domain documentation. Use the links to view the compatibility guides.

Reclaiming Data Domain Space

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This is a simple article that provides the command-line steps needed to manually reclaim space on a Data Domain system.

Data domain cleaning phases overview

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leaning is an important process on a data domain system. It is important because it is used to prevent over writing data.

Data Domain system clock

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When using AD mode for CIFS access, the data domain system clock time cannot differ by more than five minutes.

Configuring a CIFS Share

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This article describes how to create a CIFS share on the data domain system and how to troubleshoot access to it.

Data Domain Licensing Overview

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Included with the data domain appliance are CIFS, NFS, global compression, local compression, MTrees, Snapshots and Fastcopy support

Avamar Integration with Data Domain

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Benefits of integrating an Avamar system with Data Domain on the backend would be a flexible architecture and lots of plugins for applications

Data Domain license options

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This article simple ist the license optinos avilable for the EMC Data Domain product.

What is Data Domain deduplication?

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The basics is that we are eliminating redundant data, storing only one instance of each segment and using pointers to take the place of duplicates.