The deduplication rate that you get is totally dependent on the type of data you are backing up. In our environment some of our backups are getting a dedup rate of over 30x (Veeam) some over 90x (Backup Exec) and other data (Oracle DBs) we get only 5 - 8x.

The dedup ratio you will get in your environment is totally dependent on the type of data you are backing up. In our environment we are getting a 9.5:1 dedup ratio. We get a very good dedup on our backup exec and veeam backups, but our Oracle backups the ratio is much…