Question

Windows Deduplication on Laserfiche Server?

Laserfiche Version 10 Administration

Updated November 13, 2019

asked on October 21, 2019

We'd like to conserve disk space on our Laserfiche Avante server. Our users are importing more and more documents into laserfiche and it is burning through a lot of disk space. Do you recommend turning on Windows deduplication on the server? Will that have any performance or other negative repercussions? Thanks.

0 0

Replies

replied on October 21, 2019

I don't have an answer to the direct question, but I just wanted to make sure you were aware that you don't have to store the repository content on the Laserfiche server machine. One of the main benefits of using volumes is that the documents can be stored on remote file servers instead of on the application server.

2 0

replied on October 21, 2019

Yes, thank you. I'm aware of that but for now we like to have everything on one server for ease of restore from backup and it's nice to just know that everything Laserfiche is on that one server. We may break it out in the future, thanks!

0 0

replied on November 12, 2019

Just updating this for others: I turned on Dedup on our E: data volume (not the main C: drive where LF is installed) and it seems to be working ok. It's been running for a few days now.

1 0

replied on November 12, 2019

Since it's done at the File System level, I would expect it to be compatible with most servers and applications. Obviously you'll want to test it rigorously before deploying to production.

0 0

replied on November 13, 2019

Hi Dan,

I'd like to know a bit more about the Dedup process you're running. Does it remove duplicate files from the drive based on the file signature? Are you targeting Laserfiche Volume files for deduping?

0 0

replied on November 13, 2019

This is an accessible overview of Windows Deduplication. It's not whole-file deduplication, instead it looks for common blocks shared between files and deduplicates those.

1 0

replied on November 13, 2019 • Show version history

Hi Sheldon, I'm just running standard Windows Server deduplication (as Brian referred to) on the E: (Data) drive where our Laserfiche volume is located. Note it is not the C: drive where the main laserfiche server program is installed with SQL.

0 0

You are not allowed to follow up in this post.

Question

Question

Windows Deduplication on Laserfiche Server?

Replies

Sign in to reply to this post.