How to utilize only one VSS Snapshot for parallel save job´s

Question

Hello Community, if you want to speed up save jobs, standard procedure is to split the filesystem in more save sets and rise parallelism. But what you get is a time incosistent backup because every save create it´s own snapshot. How can i prevent that ? In my case there are 36 save set´s and a parallelism of 36 is no solution. Best Regards Andi

ble1 · Accepted Answer

If you need that kind of consistency, you should go for storage array based snapshots.

CarlosRojas · Answer

Hi Andi, I don't really agree with you, basically because I don't think you need to have all your files within your file system backed up at the exact same time, correct? or do you? Thank you, Carlos

LAndi2 · Answer

Hello Carlos,

Yes I realy need a solution for this Problem.

do you mean it is impossible to combine those two needs:

(One VSS Snapshot for a short Downtime of Whatever

+ More performance with high parallelism)

even with a self made backup command!

+ Without altering the File Location (link to snapshot).

Best Regards

Andi

crazyrov · Answer

If the data on the filesystem is very large why not get a device connected to it locally and convert it into a dedicated storage node ? --- Original Message ---

LAndi2 · Answer

Nice try, but the Problem is the read performace, one possible solution could also be SSD.

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