Best approach to backup big windows file servers

Hi @PedroRocha,

You're spot on! In addition, depending on the configuration you could also look into using IntelliSnap or NAS. Adding the File Server as a NAS ()https://documentation.commvault.com/2022e/essential/119323_nas_file_servers.html allows you to specify multiple access nodes / proxies to divide the load across multiple systems. You will have to take into account that adding more resources normally also means a higher impact on the storage offering of the VM and/or the underlying storage, so make sure you keep an eye on this. 

Hope this helps!

Onno

Hi @PedroRocha 

What is the data type you want to protect? Is it structured or unstructured data? What are the size of files in average & cumulative size? Do you need the capability to filter out some data from the volume? Is it a local volume or filer? Are there large number of small files? Or, all there extremely big application files?

Currently, the question is a bit vague with lots of possibilities. Perhaps, you can help narrow it down, by providing some detailed requirements.

Thanks,

Sparsh

Hi!

Its Windows FS data, unstructured, total size is 3TB+, some have 15TB. avg file size around 1MB.

No filter needed for now.

files are inside a drive (RDM presented to VMs)

Thanks a lot

regards,

Pedro