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Dedupe: Verify Scrubbing is performed regularly on Data Deduplication volumes

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Operating System

Windows Server 2012

Product/Feature

Data Deduplication

Severity

Informational

Category

Configuration

 

Issue

Scrubbing has not been performed for a month, failed, or was cancelled the last time it ran on one or more volumes.

 

Impact

Scrubbing did not complete successfully for over a month. As a result, bad-sector or checksum-mismatch problems may not be reported and repair operations may not have occurred.

 

Resolution

Create a Scrubbing job to run weekly during server idle times. If the last Scrubbing job did not complete successfully, review the event logs to determine cause of failure and re-run Scrubbing manually using Windows PowerShell.

 

Additional references

[[Data Deduplication Overview]]