You can schedule data deduplication to run automatically during off-peak hours or choose to run a one-time operation manually. Data deduplication requires at least one Btrfs volume that only consists of Synology SSDs.

Does Synology use deduplication?

To ensure maximum storage and resource efficiency, Synology Active Backup for Business uses target inline deduplication with hash-based duplicate detection. Inline deduplication scans the data and deletes the duplicated blocks before it is written to a backup repository.

How do you do data deduplication?

Data deduplication is a process that eliminates excessive copies of data and significantly decreases storage capacity requirements. Deduplication can be run as an inline process as the data is being written into the storage system and/or as a background process to eliminate duplicates after the data is written to disk.