—Data deduplication
//Powershell
Get-DedupVolume
! view a list of drives running data dedup
Start-DedupJob –Volume E: –Type Optimization
!force dedup to run
Get-DedupJob
!Check the progress of the deduplication job
This is a role which is installed on the file server, auto finds duplicates.
service runs in the background.
//Configuration
1. Server manager -> Add Roles -> File and storage services -> Data Deduplication
2. Enable data deduplication on the disk
Server Manager -> Storage -> Volumes -> Right click -> Configure Data Deduplication
3. I needed to enable the file permissions to everyone to get deduplication to work