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nuance3
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14 years ago
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How to overcome the 10,001 file limit for file recovery in SSR

I used SSR 2011 (current version) to back up a directory with thousands of files (I had a reason).

When you restore the files from the .fbf, there is a limit of 10,001 files that you can select at once.

Is there anyway to bypass this limit?  This is a problem for people that use SSR to backup a directory.

Directory backups don't create a .2vi file.

Is there a utility that will create a .2vi file from an .fbf-based backup?

 

Many thanks.

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  • criley's avatar
    criley
    14 years ago

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH124777

    I don't believe there is any way to work around this limit.

    How much data are you backing up? I think your best option is to use volume level backups instead of the more limited file/folder level backup methd.

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    nuance3
    Level 4
    14 years ago

    The limit would not be so bad if we could restore more than one directory at a time.

    If each subdirectory contains 1000 files, we could restore 10,000 at a time.  But I don't see a way to do this.

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    criley
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    14 years ago

    http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH124777

    I don't believe there is any way to work around this limit.

    How much data are you backing up? I think your best option is to use volume level backups instead of the more limited file/folder level backup methd.

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    nuance3
    Level 4
    14 years ago

    Thanks for this information and for providing the documentation.

    This set of files is on a large, raided volume that contains other directories of files that either never change, or that I backup in a different manner (like MS SQL Server datafiles).  SSR was already loaded on the machine to create an image of the operating system volume;  it was convenient to backup part of the datavolume using SSR, but I didn't know about the limitations in restore.

    Thank you again.