Case #06092272 DFSR As File Share

timgowen · Post by **timgowen** » Jun 02, 2023 12:29 pm this post

I've got a DFSR with two members for digital assets. Backup doesn't work as expected with a file server (which I have in my setup, no problem). After some research I switched to a File Share backup but there's a licensing issue... even though I have removed one server from the Veeam configuration as it is no longer required. Ideally I would like to back this share up as I do a normal windows agent backup, but DFSR in additional to the licensing issue gives me file lock problems. Apologies for the non-technical description of the situation, but I'm failing to understand where the issue lies.

Jun 05, 2023 2:49 pm

Hi Tim,

No issue at all, we can discuss questions of any technical level on this forum but please keep in mind that we don't troubleshoot technical issues here, you should work with our support team to find a resolution. As far as I see, you already created a support case so let's wait for the results of technical analysis from our engineers.

Thanks!

timgowen · Post by **timgowen** » Jun 19, 2023 7:23 am this post

Ok so my case became one of licensing because a file backup, which would work fine, uses an instance per 500Gb and the volume I have would require 58. The actual volume is very big - 107Tb.

Anyway I came to the conclusion that VSS is of course not supported with volumes that big but it doesn't return an error that's meaningful it just stops working. So now I am wondering about reducing the volume size in Windows with relatively low risk to the existing data.