[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Database Backup to Cloud services claiming they "DE-DEPE" the files.

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Mike, if I understood correctly, the dedup processing would occur on backup files, and those don't change after probkup has finished with them. So the OP would send a BAK to a service who would store this first BAK entirely. Then on subsequente backups they would only store diffs. As long as the service can provide me with a byte-by-byte exact copy of what I send them, I don't really care how they store things. But again, can they? Only way to be sure is to test backups regularly.

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