I want to backup the same VMguests via VMDK and system/file level. If I backup a VMDK, and the same system via file level, that has for example ~100 Word docs, will the VMDK dedupe against the file level backup or just against the other VMDK?VMDK refers to extension of the files that implement virtual machines. Thus, the VMDK is normally a single file (depending on configuration a VMDK can also be split into chunks) and looks for duplicate VMDK files. It is doubtful that any two VMDK files will be identical. Therefore, VMDK will not dedupe against files backed up from the guest. The incremental VMDK backups will only backup the blocks that change within the VMDK file.
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