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March 26th, 2014 11:00
Block based backups for everything?
Hey,
I'm curious if there isn't a reason to enable block based backups on everything supported?
It's apparently 5x faster so are there any negative impacts by enabling it on everything supported besides just large file servers?
What are other people doing?
I don't want to enable it everywhere to find out there's some reason not to.
-Brian
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ble1
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March 27th, 2014 04:00
In my landscape majority of backup volumes comes from DBs. They are using DB side API and therefore I do not use BBB. Block based backups make sense for fs backup when it comes to dense file systems for example.
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March 27th, 2014 09:00
Limitations of block based backups
Block based backup does not support the following capabilities and configurations:
◆ Non-Windows storage nodes
◆ FAT file system
◆ Backup levels 1 through 9
◆ Synthetic full backups of mixed mode save sets
◆ Cloning of incremental backups
◆ Granular save sets at either the folder level or the file level, for example, D:\data
◆ Checkpoint restart
◆ Staging
◆ Standard NetWorker directives
◆ The scanner command with the -i option for rebuilding indexes for block based
backups
◆ The nsrclone command with the -m option for migrating block based backup save sets
to other volumes
◆ Image recovery to a system volume.