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The policies allow for multiple streams. Since the primary concern here is regarding DFSR servers with deduplicated volumes, that is the focus. The backup streams for the non-DFSR data (up to around 4 streams - 1 per drive) complete very quickly - say 15 to 20 minutes or so. The stream for the Shadow Copy Components takes a very long time. It can take many days at times. I am trying to find any ways possible to speed up the backup process for the Shadow Copy Components.
The DFSR data is *in* the Shadow Copy Components, which is why it takes so long. As others have suggested, your best solution will be to split the backups, per this TechNote: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100038589.
You can split the backups into multiple policies, and specify the exact DFSR folders you want to be backed up within each policy. You will need to work with the appropriate sysadmin to identify the best solution to backing these servers up. Some of them may be small enough to only need one policy with a backup selection of ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES. This will protect DFSR, System State, and any other drives on the server.
For the ones with more DFSR data, you will need to split them into separate policies. One policy will protect the System State and the local drives, and another policy will specify the exact path to the DFSR folders that your sysadmin wants backed up. If there are 10 DFSR folders, and 8 of them are small, they could all go in one policy and the remaining 2 could be in a separate policy. You can test out performance/backup speeds of the folders and then determine which ones are taking the longest to back up.
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