10-19-2011 09:29 AM
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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10-20-2011 01:02 AM
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.
10-19-2011 10:02 AM
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.
10-20-2011 01:02 AM
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.
10-20-2011 05:20 AM
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.