Exchange 2007 Incremental Size
Hi All
Just a quick question I hope, we are backing up exchange 2007 (SBS2008) using VMP8 Build 8184, I'm wondering why the incremental is sometimes so big? They were large on VMP7 too.
A Full backup of the SBS2008 VM is 150GB which is our largest VM but the daily incremental can range from 600MB to 20GB which makes is quite hard to copy over our WAN in the time we have when the incremental hits 5GB+. The Exchange Stores are 45GB is total, I'm guessing the Exchange Maintenance (Online Defrag) could be causing a large CBT change but I'm not sure.
On our old Backup Software the daily incremental was 300-1000 MB what is manageable and normal "Shared" data is 300 - 500 MB change (AHSAY Backing using InFile Delta)
Can I see what files/blocks have changed according to CBT, what are other people seeing. I know the VM Backup is different compared to Standard Application only backup but the size of the VM data is causing a problem. We aren't seeing this kind of data change is any other VM.
Thanks
Nigel

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Thanks Anton
Will VMP do a incremental backup without CBT enabled?
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