Manual replica creation of DeDup Volumes

Hi,

we are on the way to update a lot of our file Servers to Windows Server 2012.
DeDup will be enabled on the volumes.

We are going to to backup these voumes via DPM2012SP1.

Now my question: Is it possible to create a Manual replica (for example with the help of USB external drives) for dedup enabled volumes or does the replica creation process have to be triggered from within DPM console so that all data will be transfered over the Network?

Thanks in advance

regards

/bkpfast

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