File copy error copying de-Duped files on 2012 R2

[RRC IT]

HI Guys,

I was not able to find anything on the forums directly related to this issue so I thought I would post it.

I was trying to use a File copy job to copy my Reverse incremental backups to a remote repository.

Unfortunately the job only copied the .vbm files.

As it turns out, If you have (or did have) DE-Duplication turned on, the de-duplication process marks files that it de-duplicates with the "APL" file attributes (Attributes : Archive, SparseFile, ReparsePoint).

The .vbm files are so small that they are never de-duped so they still work. They only have the A attribute set.


Great work by Mark in Veeam support for spotting the subtle difference in the file attributes.

Hopefully a fix will be available for this.

This issue is logged under Veeam Case # 00540981

Thanks

Brion

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Brion, thanks for sharing this with the community, much appreciated.