Sam,
   If you are backing up a CIFs share, I would encourage you to
investigate the "-snapdiff" option run from a windows server.  This will
create a snapshot of the volume on the filer and then you only backup
the snapshot (or what has changed since the last snapshot) - like an
incremental backup on steriods.
   The first time you perform a -snapdiff, there will be no difference
form performing a normal incremental, but subsequent -snapdiff backups
should be significantly faster than a normal incremental. There will be
no "noodling" through the filesystem to see if a file has changed
because in the snapshot all the files are changed files.

Cheers,

Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
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