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This status is defined as the most severe status of the policy on the machines included in the group

and its child groups. If the policy is currently not applied to any machine, its status is "OK".

2.12.5.5 Cumulative state and status of a policy

In addition to the deployment state and status as related to a specific machine or group, the backup

policy has a cumulative deployment state and a cumulative status.

The cumulative state of a backup policy

To see this parameter, select Backup policies in the tree. The Deployment state column displays the

cumulative deployment state for each policy.

This state is defined as a combination of deployment states of the policy on all machines the policy is

applied to (directly or through inheritance). If the policy is currently not applied to any machine, it

does not have a deployment state and the column shows "Not applied".

For example, you applied the policy to machine A. The policy was successfully deployed. Then you

modify the policy and immediately apply it to the group consisting of machines B and C. The policy

has to be updated on A and deployed to B and C. While the processes take place, the policy's

cumulative state may look like "Updating, Deploying", then change to "Updating, Deployed" or

"Deployed, Deploying" and will normally end up with "Deployed".

The cumulative status of a backup policy

To see this parameter, select Backup policies in the tree. The Status column displays the cumulative

status for each policy.

This status is defined as the most severe status of the policy on all machines the policy is applied to.

If the policy is not applied to any machine, its status is "OK".

2.12.6 Deduplication

This section describes deduplication, a mechanism designed to eliminate data repetition by storing

identical data in archives only once.

2.12.6.1 Overview

Deduplication is the process of minimizing storage space taken by the data by detecting data

repetition and storing the identical data only once.

For example, if a managed vault where deduplication is enabled contains two copies of the same

file—whether in the same archive or in different archives—the file is stored only once, and a link to

that file is stored instead of the second file.

Deduplication may also reduce network load: if, during a backup, a file or a disk block is found to be a

duplicate of an already stored one, its content is not transferred over the network.

Deduplication is performed on disk blocks (block-level deduplication) and on files (file-level

deduplication), for disk-level and file-level backups respectively.

In Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, deduplication consists of two steps:

Deduplication at source