same size, but the backup is much bigger.
Regards,
Ruud
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan
Folkerts
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 8:36 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP for VE; CBT backup size versus OS mod
It may be worth reading this VMware article about how CBT works - I can't
comment on your particular case since you didn't provide any information
about your infrastructure, but there are dependencies such as:
- Virtual hardware version
- ESX version
- type of storage (VMFS, RDM, etc.)
- whethe
Ruud,
>After all, the fact that a file is modified does not mean that the entire
file has changed (meaning that all CBT blocks need to be backed up).
Regarding this statement, when you open, edit and save an office file (for
example) it rewrites the entire thing to disk, even if you edit or add a
Hi Ruud,
Did you put the Windows swap file on a seperate disk and exclude it from
the VE backup?
If not this is part of the VE backup and might be (a part) of the size
increase you are seeing if Windows swap space is in use.
A file backup using the backup archive client might also exclude other da
Hi all,
We administer a vSphere 5.5 environment using TDP for VE as our backup
solution. TDP for VE uses CBT to make incremental-forever backups of our VMs,
meaning that it only backs up the entire VM once; all subsequent backups are
incrementals. We backup our VMs once a day. We are currently
