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re_kn21
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Large Incremental Backups

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Hi Everyone,

Recent user to Veeam, using a Cloud provider and backing up 4 servers with very little data transfer, not used for file storage etc.
I've noticed even with this being the caes, the incremental backups are quite large, the logs show a transfer for example of 19GB on a daily incremental even though there would be nowhere near this much new data on the servers. Is there anything to check?

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Re: Large Incremental Backups

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Incremental backups only include disk blocks that changed their content since the last backup, so something clearly does a lot of writes on those servers. What application do these servers run?
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Re: Large Incremental Backups

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Just Active Directory, DNS, Remote Desktop, a couple of small databases but certainly nothing that would generate that amount of incoming data
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Re: Large Incremental Backups

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Ah... its databases. Those are always quite "chatty".
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