Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing Up Too Much Information

2008-04-01 10:46:04
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing Up Too Much Information
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: Randy Samora <Randy.Samora AT stewart DOT com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:32:14 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Randy Samora wrote:

> I didn't think I'd ever say that but I am backing up too much data.  I
> am running NBU 6.0 MP4, Windows Master/Media/Clients.  I have a client
> with four 500GB volumes and my full backups from this weekend are
> already at 1.7TB and still climbing.  I have seen this twice before and
> it will end up backing up about twice as much data as is actually on the
> client so I can only assume it's getting everything twice.  Does anyone
> know how and why this happens and do you have any suggestions on how to
> avoid it.
>
> Thanks,
> Randy
>
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I have seen it although only when there were millions of small files 
involved, is that your case as well?
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