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How tape backup works with deduplication

When you backup to a tape through the SMTape engine, the data format of the source volume is preserved on the tape and all deduplication savings are retained on the tape. The deduplication savings are preserved on the volume to which the data is restored from the tape.

When you backup to a tape through NDMP, the deduplication savings are not preserved on the tape.