best practice to back up file servers
Hi, our master and media servers are all NBU 7.1 on Windows 2008 R2. We have 10+ file servers (all are Windows 2003, NBU 7.1 client). We found the data sizes in these file servers grow very fast. Now...
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I have voted for Mark's initial response.
Another 'quick win' is to break up big filesystems into multiple steams.
Ensure 'Allow multiple data streams' is enabled in policy attributes. Check directory structure on large user-drive. Break up Backup Selection into 4 - 5 streams, e.g.:
NEW_STREAM
x:\users\a*
x:\users\b*
x:\users\c*
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x:\users\h*
NEW_STREAM
x:\users\i*
x:\users\j*
x:\users\k*
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NEW_STREAM
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NEW_STREAM
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.....Make this change before a full backup to prevent incrementals running as full.
