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[Veritas-bu] More Netbackup and VCB questions

2009-09-16 18:54:01
Subject: [Veritas-bu] More Netbackup and VCB questions
From: cpreston <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:50:54 -0400

>  For a particular guest, there is a 1TB VMDK, but there is currently only 
> about 100GB of data on the VMDK. We see it get through the 100GB in record 
> time, but then it just keeps going until it gets through the whole disk.
> 
> Is this normal?


I believe this is the way that FlashBackup works.  It's a raw backup, so it's 
going to look at the whole disk each time, even if it only backs up part of it. 
 The incremental backups in NBU are done file-level, so this should only happen 
with the full.

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