ntfs compression enabled

[dmitryk8]

Hello,

We are planning to backup physical file server with agent. But there are some folders with ntfs compression enabled. Can it be a problem for recovery (single item or entire server)?

Also, there is a scheduled copy of some compressed folders to another location using robocopy. Will veeam agent consider sources files (as I understand, they are decompressing and compressing during process) as new ones and include them in incremental copy?

Thanks.

[HannesK]

Hello,
NTFS compression is fine from Veeam perspective. Did you see any issues? If yes, what's the case number?

Per default Veeam agent for Windows does block-based backup. So files are irrelevant with the recommended backup modes (entire computer and volume based). File-based backup copies all files that are new / have changed. I got lost on the robocopy part. The source file stays the same (no change) if copied by any tool.

Best regards,
Hannes

[dmitryk8]

Just a little follow-up: backups are fine, no problem with compressed files. Thanks!

[gonchik]

Hello,
do you have some specific metrics?
maybe results of using that compression?
I want to understand does that compression is helpful or not.
I start to make some testing