How to backup deduplication storage to external drive?
What is the proper procedure to make a backup of an entire deduplication storage directory to external storage?
In the backup job setup, there is both the raw directory structure of the drive letter and directory name "E:\BackupExecDeduplicationStorageFolder\" .... but there is an additional section under "Shadow copy components" with "Configuration" and "Storage" as possible selections.
So which do I choose to backup? Both of these? Or only the shadow copy components?
The target of the backup is a large external USB drive, with backup compression enabled.
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Also, is this really enough for the dedupe data to be usable if restored in the future, or do I need to be backing up some additional SQL database that is associated with the deduplication disk directory?