Windows Server 2012 Data Deduplication Part 4 ~ Tech Notes

Overview of Powershell for Data-Deduplication

This is not a new information for some of you have read it before. If you did follow my previous post, you will see that I use a lot of powershell to configure the settings, in this articles I would like to give you an overview of what are those command are use for.

To get started, you must know the 3 basis command which as shown as below. This is important for you get understand what are those use for and learn it by your self.

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I also have included a list of the command that you must know in data deduplication, however if you would like to use the GUI version that is fine too. This is just served as alternative if you are bored with GUI.

cmdlet	Description
Disable-DedupVolume	Disables further data deduplication activity on one or more volumes.
Enable-DedupVolume	Enables data deduplication on the specified volumes, using default settings.
Get-DedupJob	Returns status and information for currently running or queued deduplication jobs.
Get-DedupMetadata	Returns a Deduplication Metadata object for every volume that has data deduplication metadata.
Get-DedupSchedule	Returns the Deduplication Job Schedule objects defined on the system.
Get-DedupStatus	Returns a Deduplication Status object for every volume that has data deduplication metadata.
Get-DedupVolume	Returns a Deduplication Volume object for each volume that has data deduplication metadata.
New-DedupSchedule	Creates a new data deduplication schedule and returns a Deduplication Schedule object.
Remove-DedupSchedule	Deletes the specified Deduplication Schedule object.
Set-DedupSchedule	Sets data deduplication schedule settings.
Set-DedupVolume	Sets data deduplication volume settings.
Start-DedupJob	Queues a new data deduplication job of the specified type for the specified volumes.
Stop-DedupJob	Cancels one or more specified data deduplication jobs.
Update-DedupStatus	Scans one or more specified volumes to compute fresh data deduplication savings information and returns a Deduplication Status object.