On 05/31/2013 11:30 AM, Richard Rhodes wrote: > > Do I read this as you can pull the blobs out of the db and keep them > somewhere else, making it much more efficient?
Exactly. It separates the DB backup problem from the many large files backup problem > > We have DataDomains. Is it possible to mount a CIFS share to the > SharePoing server and perform direct backups onto the share? Does the > SharePoint data dedup/compress well? You're out of my competency here; I think the "does it dedupe" question is deeply related to what you've got in your sharepoint. The export-blobs sharepoint action is a matter of sharepoint wizardry, not backup wizardry, and I got no props there. :) That said, I would _expect_ that you'd just need a CIFS share that the SP server (or whatever server you're running the export subsystem) could access. At that point you've got a conventional filesystem-backup problem. If you've got 20M files, that's still a big problem, but at least you've separated the conjoined twins. - Allen S. Rout
