My understanding:
Saveset ALL will get the volumes and the OS specific requirements for
doing a BMR (Bare Metal Recovery) - i.e., a "disaster recovery" type of
recover.
Saveset ALL-NTFS will only get all mounted NTFS volumes; it will not get
the VSS:* or DISASTER RECOVERY: savesets; these are REQUIRED to get a
(Windows) BMR - Bare Metal Recovery.
If you don't need a BMR - i.e., if your disaster recovery method is to
install the OS clean; install the application; recover the data - then
ALL-NTFS will be fine. And that is a perfectly valid DR strategy, for
certain kinds of applications. I have a number of servers where that would
be the DR plan.
If, on the other hand, you need to recover what is essentially a snapshot
image of the entire system, and have it Just Work after the recover
finishes, with no further configuration or application re-install
afterwards, then you almost certainly need an ALL backup. You would need
that DISASTER_RECOVERY: or VSS:* savesets, to make this happen.
That's a bit simplified, but a good rule of thumb, as they say.
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