Best practices for backing up Windows volumes?

[sross-dri]

I'm protecting a failover cluster that has 6 volumes. Everything is working fine, but I have a question about efficiency and best practices. Currently I have each volume backed up by its own individual job. Backup frequency and retention is the same for each volume. Should I instead consolidate these into a single job protecting all the volumes? Does that gain anything in terms of efficiency, storage optimization, or resource consumption on the protected server? Thanks very much.

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

I would consolidate it to one job for simplicity. That would also allow to use parallel processing (Veeam Agent for Windows) processes disks in parallel. CPU usage usually becomes higher because of parallel processing. Storage optimization should be irrelevant. Compression always works the same way (and deduplication has little impact)

Best regards,
Hannes