I have a CIFS SVM which will have around 50 file shares.
Right now I’m leaning towards each file share being a separate volume in ONTAP but that may not matter for this question.
- I could have a single subclient that does \\svm\c$ and tries to grab everything
- I could have a single subclient that has a list of \\svm\a_specific_share_1 and \\svm\a_specific_share_2 and so on
- I could have 50 subclients where each one does \\svm\a_specific_share
Is there a suggested best practise or just a least headaches way of doing this please?
Some other option I haven’t considered?
With multiple UNC paths in a single subclient I’m not sure when adding/removing/editing the list of UNC paths triggers a full backup of everything because it thinks the subclient content has changed.
Whilst it’s a bit more management overhead I’m leaning towards option 3 because it seems to offer the most granularity and if I need to do a proper full backup of a specific share or there’s a problem I’m hopefully reducing the chances of needing to backup everything again.
Thank you :)