Acronis Backup & Recovery 11: Deduplication Enhancements

Enhancements of deduplication in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11

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The following improvements have been made to deduplication functionality in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11:

Encrypted NTFS files can be deduplicated;
Files smaller than 4 KB can be deduplicated;
64-bit architecture support: larger amount of memory can be used, which allows faster deduplication;
Data is compressed before transmission, reducing the network load;
TIB files are not blocked during indexing: it is possible to run incremental backups while indexing is in progress;
Parallel read-write operations do not block each other;
SQLite database engine is used for storing deduplication database instead of Firebird, allowing scalability: adding more RAM positively affects performance.

Restrictions:

Encrypted archives cannot be deduplicated. As a workaround, you can encrypt the vault where archives are stored instead of the archive itself;
File system metadata is not deduplicated.

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