BE2012 System State Full/Incremental
Created: 30 Jan 2013 | Updated: 30 Jan 2013 | 5 comments
Hi,
This topic has been adequately covered in tech articles and forums:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/inc...
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/wha...
My question is "Are there any plans to implement incremental System State backups in BE2012 (R2)?"
I ask because irrelevant of other commercial backup vendors, Windows own native backup tool already supports this in Server 2008 R2!
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/wind...
I can confirm this from my own tests - first System State was approx 8GB, and a second only added a few megabytes. Restore to the first backup reverted the registry changes I made between the two backups.
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Check the link below for the BE 2012 R2 Beta...join in and ask the question there. It also lists a bunch of changes to the software, and if it doesn't support this, then consider adding it in as an idea...
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/anno...
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/backup-and...
Thanks!
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Put this up as a suggestion in the Ideas section. If it gets enough votes, it might be implemented in some future release of BE.
Gentlemen, many thanks for your suggestions - I'll assume there's no secret registry entry to enable this functionality :)
( as there is for some features e.g. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH187957 )
Out of interest, would the Deduplication Option help here?
Even if we still have to drag 10GB per day from eash server for the System State, if we can de-dupe that down to a a few megabytes on disk, it would still be a solution, albeit a sub-optimal one.
...I don't think this will be a problem...just invoke the deduplication agent trial, create a small dedupe folder and run a backup job as a test.
Thanks!
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