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UFO
Level 6
10 years ago

Backup Exec 2014: how to optimize too big Sysem State incremental backup

Hi everyone, It is not the first time this issue is being discussed on Connect: the size of incremental backup for Windows Server 2008 is too big. As I can see this happens because of Windows Serv...
2014
Backing Up
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
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Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • CraigV's avatar
    CraigV
    10 years ago

    ...the only way to optimise your backups to disk might be via dedupe which will backup unique data once, and put pointers in for redundant files.

    Thanks!

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pkh
Moderator
10 years ago
The system state is needed to recover a server. How often you backup the system state is how current you want your recovered server to be