Per-VM Backup Files and Reverse Incremental?

[GregorS]

Just a quick clarification: per-vm backup file chains are not created with reverse incremental backup method, right?

Thanks for the answer!


Regars
Gregor

[Dima P.]

Hi Gregor,

Should be possible to use Per-VM Backup Files - the only limitation is you can’t use in on a backup repository with rotated drives.

[GregorS]

Hmm... Yesterday (Saturday) I enabled Per-VM backup files option on a repository where rotated hard drives option was never enabled before. At the time the repository contained a chain of 1 VBK and 59 VRBs. A scheduled active full backup started today at 00:00 (Sunday) and finished successfully however a new monolitic VBK file was created. Where should I look first to troubleshoot this? My goal is to have smaller backup files for better Windows Server 2012 R2 deduplication. I prefer reverse incremental as it enables me to easily manage free space on the backup repository by only adjusting the number of restore points. Thanks!

[dellock6]

hi Gregor,
this is a bug that will be solved in the next update, so far in order to leverage per-vm chains the active full needs to be manually invoked, not through schedule.