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Recipe: Manual Population of Global Cache

Expected deliverables:

A manual pre-population of the global cache, so that it will contain data blocks that can be used for data deduplication.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• A pair of source/target WAN accelerators

Before you start:

The manual population writes only data blocks for Windows-based OSes on the cache. Data blocks for other OSes like Linux/Unix and application data blocks are not written.

Assumptions:

It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment. You already have source/target WAN Accelerators set up. If you don’t, please refer to Add a New WAN Accelerator recipe.

Method:

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
2. Open the Backup Infrastructure view, select the WAN Accelerators node and right-click the target WAN accelerator. Select Populate cache.
3. In the Source Backup Repositories window, select backup repositories from which OS data blocks must be retrieved.
4. Click OK.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• Veeam Best Practices

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