Backing up huge filesytems directly to tape

[mtav]

Hello,

i wanted to ask if anyone has day to day experience with backing up very large filesystems (like SMB shares from a Windows machine) with Veeam directly to tape?

What we plan to do is:

- Make an initial backup of a large Windows fileshare (about 120 TB, more than 200 mio files)
- After the inital backup do a incremential backup each day
- After about a year make a new Backup of the complete share
- Continue with the daily incremential backup
- ...

How well can Veeam handle an incremential backup on such huge fileshares? It would be possible for me to exclude some parent directories from the incremential backup so Veeam does not have to search through the 200 mio files...

Kind regards

[david.domask]

Hi mtav,

I've moved your topic to our Tape forums as the questions are more oriented about the tape handling of file shares.

File to Tape engine was improved in v12 to support file shares better. Check the System Requirements here first for your planning (our Veeam Calculators can also help with planning)

Size correctly as per the User Guide and the backups will be fine.

Exclusions are supported via Filters. You can export / import the filter lists as needed if you're doing multiple jobs from same shares that will need the same exclusions.