Backup Active Directory Workstations

[MaxDes]

SO when I add items from AD (workstations) I don't really see where I can tell it what to backup specific items. Am I mistaken in thinking if I choose workstations via the active directory list in protection groups it's backing up the workstation?

Also, it seems to take forever to to file level protection group workstation backups. The full merge fastclone took 3 hours for a user, and their drives aren't even that big. It just seems odd. This is one area, where maybe I need advice on fast, incremental, workstation backups. With InSync I could do one user and it made it easy, but with Veeam I have to do the entire c:\users folder unless I want to create an individual backup for each users workstation, not only is a lot of data moving over I don't need, I feel it takes forever to even do an incremental over the vpn.

As always any help is appreciated. I'm still a noob here. lol

[HannesK]

Hello,
for performance reasons block level backup is better, yes (volume based or entire machine). But if you only need c:\users and you want to save bandwidth, then file based backup is the only option.

File based backup means the following: if 1 KB of a 1 GB file changes, then 1 GB will be transferred (Outlook PST files...). I assume that's the issue.

The full merge fastclone took 3 hours for a user,

that sounds strange. REFS / XFS fast clone running for 3h would be probably 100+ TB merges in properly working environment.

Best regards,
Hannes