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Acronis Backup Capabilities Quesiton

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Hello, I had a quick question.  We have deployed Acronis Backup on several ESXI hosts without issue (mostly), but there is one host that I wanted to ask about before I recommend purchasing a license for it.  One of the VM's on it has around 12 TB of data, which isn't really to big of a deal, but its the number of files.  It has around 17 million files, and 1.5 million directories, its a database server.  We tried using WSB as a stop gap until we could get something more permanent in place, but I am pretty sure that VSS just times out because of how many files there are. 

 

My question is will Acronis be able to handle this many files?  And if so is there a particular way it should be setup?  I plan to setup an iSCSI target on a Buffalo NAS we are using to store backups on, and I'll have Acronis send backups to that.  I know since we are going to be using the virtual host version of the program it most likely won't be as big of a deal, but I would also like to be able to do application aware backups of the database server, its using Advantage database.  If its unable to do the application aware backups, then I'll just do full backups and do incrementals usual.

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Hello Mr Lizard!

I don't have experience with this volume of data, but I'd imagine a hypervisor level backup of the VM wouldn't be affected by the number of files. The bottleneck would probably be latency and disk I/O for that ammount of data.

If most files rarely change deduplication might of interest.

The Advantage database (I assume SAP Advantage) however is not supported for application aware database as far as I can tell. Probably worth to clarify with support if this is the case.

If not you'll probably have to configure pre/post backup scripts to run the native database backup tool prior to full backup to capture a consistent database state.

-- Peter