How to accelerate backup for a BIG Files servers and SQL servers.
- 12 years ago
Flashbackup is for Unix
Flashbackup-Windows is for flashbackup policies on Windows Clients
MS-Windows is a standard Windows backup
Flashbackup and Flashbackup-Windows do raw device backups - they tend to be very fast as they back up at block level and backup the entire drive
So if you have a 50TB drive with 15 TB used you backup will be 50TB!
You can however restore single file data from these backups - I would advise having a moderate fragment size for you storage unit - say 5000MB - so that when seeking a single file from the backup it can be located easily
Also test restores from the backup as very large backups can have issues
Two other differences are that you cannot do the system drive (C drive) using this type of backup and the backup selection list is different .. A windows policy would say D:\ but a Flashbackup-Windows policy will say \\.\D:
Hope this helps