Simple Question re Network Shares

[Paul_Donovan]

Hi,

When setting up a backup job I browsed a remote server (with remote agent on it) and selected both Network Shares and the drives that those shares are on e.g.:

MyShare (which is a directory on C drive)
C$

are both part of the selection. The resulting backup was a massive amount of data - more than I was expecting ... would that be because I'm backing up both the share and its underlying drive? Shall I make sure I don't include shares and presumably by backing up system state etc. the shares themselves will magically be restored even if they aren't part of the selection?

Confused,

Paul

[Hywel_Mallett]

You are getting more data because you are backing up the same data twice.
In your scenario you'd just want to back up the drives, as the shares are a subset of them.
If you backup the drives and the system state, your shares would reappear in the event of a restore.

[Amruta_Bhide]

Hello,

Could you let us know if the suggestion made by Hywel helped you?

Thanks
Regards