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Windows client Backup selection (Wild cards)

rbkguy
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Master Server 7.7.2 - Windows 2008 R2

Media Server 7.7.2 - Windows 2012 R2

Client 7.7.2 - Windows 2012

We have a file server that has millions of files and I am looking to divide the volumes into 4-5 streams but I can't figure out an easy backup selection like the following:

NEW STREAM

H:\a-g

New Stream

H:\h-l

 

I know that this is something that is possible for Unix but not for windows. Has anyone else run into something like this?

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The method suggested by @watsons  has been working for us at various customer sites.
And both uppercase and lowercase gets backed up.

NEW_STREAM
X:\Users\a*
X:\Users\b*
X:\Users\c*
X:\Users\d*
.....
...
NEW_STREAM
X:\Users\g*
X:\Users\h*
X:\Users\i*
X:\Users\j*
.....
....
NEW_STREAM
X:\Users\m*
X:\Users\n*
X:\Users\o*
X:\Users\p*
.....
NEW_STREAM
X:\Users\.....
.....

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Nicolai
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Windows is not case sensitive.

You can prevent data loss:

creating a policy with file list ALL_LOCAL_DRIVE
creating a policy with file list e:\data*

Then on the client, create a policy specific exclude list, that exclude e:\data* (for the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVE directive). Then if someone create e:\somedir, that directory will be protected by the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVE directive.

 

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Nicolai
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one way of doing it, is placing data into seperate top level folder like

e:\data1
e:\data2
e:\data3

Then from the policy specify as file path e:\data* and chekmark "use multiple streams".

As you mention, advanced regular expression does not work under Windows.

I thought about doing that but lets say someone adds a new folder and I never catch it? I also want to avoid case sensitive issues   

Michal_Mikulik1
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Hello,

supposing thar dividing your H: disk into several disks backed up then as separate streams is not probably feasible, you can try other approaches:

if you have a basic disk or tape on Media Server, consider FlashBackup policy for the whole disk.

If you have dedup disk on Media Server, consider Use Accelerator attribute in your MS-Windows policy

if you have a change to virtualize this server, or if it is already a virtual server, consider VMware/Hyper-V policy.

Details in appropriate Admin Guides.

Regards

Michal

The client is a Hyper-V VM but the data is sitting on NTFS deduplication volume and from what I am reading flash type backups are not supported on these volume types. So I am going to assume hyper-v snapshot backups are not supported either...

Also the  Accelerator is enabled but it still runs for 24 plus hours to do a full backup. 

Would this work for you?

NEW STREAM
H:\a*
H:\b*
H:\c*
H:\d*
H:\e*
H:\f*
H:\g*
NEW STREAM
H:\h*
H:\i*
H:\j*
...
(so on and so forth.., and don't forget to have H:\0* up to H:\9*)

Don't have to worry about case sensitivity I guess, if the client is Windows.

The method suggested by @watsons  has been working for us at various customer sites.
And both uppercase and lowercase gets backed up.

NEW_STREAM
X:\Users\a*
X:\Users\b*
X:\Users\c*
X:\Users\d*
.....
...
NEW_STREAM
X:\Users\g*
X:\Users\h*
X:\Users\i*
X:\Users\j*
.....
....
NEW_STREAM
X:\Users\m*
X:\Users\n*
X:\Users\o*
X:\Users\p*
.....
NEW_STREAM
X:\Users\.....
.....

sdo
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In a Windows backup policy this should work:

H:\[a-g]*

H:\[h-l]*

etc...

Nicolai
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Windows is not case sensitive.

You can prevent data loss:

creating a policy with file list ALL_LOCAL_DRIVE
creating a policy with file list e:\data*

Then on the client, create a policy specific exclude list, that exclude e:\data* (for the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVE directive). Then if someone create e:\somedir, that directory will be protected by the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVE directive.