Best practice for a ReFS repository.

[Einar]

Hello

I need some recommendation on the best practice to make the best use of a ReFS repository (SSD harddisks).

At the moment I am doing following:

Daily Incremental and weekly synthetic full backup, not transforming previous backup chains into rollbacks
Once a week (key servers twice a week) backup to tape for offline storage.

The questions are:

Reverse Incremental vs. Incremental?
Synthetic full backup vs. active full backup (and how often)?
What about "Transform previous backup chains into rollbacks?

And what maintenance are needed on ReFS:

Health check?
Defragment and compact?

With regards
Einar

[Gostev]

Hello!

What you're doing now is the recommended approach, which is why these are the default settings.

Health check functionality is quite perpendicular to the file system used. In other words, it's the decision you need to make (do you want to do it or not) regardless of file system used for the backup repository.

And with your settings, you won't be able to enable Defragment and compact option even if you tried

Thanks!