1. A method in a computer system for performing an efficient transfer of deduplicated data within a storage management system, comprising: deduplicating a data object within a storage management system into one or more deduplicated data chunks, the storage management system containing a plurality of storage pools; tracking storage information for the one or more deduplicated data chunks in an index within the storage management system; tracking deduplication information for the data object in an index within the storage management system; storing the one or more deduplicated data chunks onto one or more of the plurality of storage pools; and transferring one or more deduplicated data chunks of the data object from a first storage pool within the plurality of storage pools to a second storage pool within the plurality of storage pools; wherein each of the indexes used for tracking storage information and tracking deduplication information are accessible by each of the plurality of storage pools.