Which is the best method to backup DFSR server and shares
I am trying to settle down with the best way to have a working cycle of DFSR weekly full backup and daily differential backup. All this over the past 3/4 weeks seems to be coming to a near impossible state. I ran a full backup last Friday which took 1day 5hrs to complete for 804GB. Coming to Monday night differential backup, although it succeeded, the size of the backup is way out of proportion to the actual size/amount of the truely modified files/folders on that day. Tuesday's backup came up and a more distressing scenario took place when arriving Wednesday morning and finding that backup has not completed and going into 144GB which is surely not the case. I gave a good investigation and found that in Tuesday's differential backup it was also trying to backup files which where not modified since last full backup. Can anyone please point out the proper selection and method of a DFSR backup on BackupExec 2014 ? Present backup selection Part of the selections, i have unselected the dfsprivate, as can be seen below; Thanks.