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Veeam Community discussions and solutions for: Target Repository: ReFS or NTFS of File Shares.

Mar 17, 2017 · So I think any and all Veeam customers – who are using a Windows hosted repository – should have it hosted on a ReFS volume – BTW, you don’t to upgrade your domain, all you need is one server running Win2K16. But, depending on how you do ReFS with Veeam it can produce the results we want or not.

NTFS or ReFS? ... You can use both Microsoft filesystems for a Veeam Repository. Both have advantages and disadvantages during different backup situations. ReFS ...

Read this white paper and learn how to configure a Veeam repository to leverage ReFS and how to measure storage efficiency.

06.11.2018 · ReFS relies on flush durability, meaning that if filesystem metadata write operations take place, they must be consistently flushed to disk. If a storage destination is used where a cache acknowledges writes before they are written to disk, for example, by a RAID controller or NAS, and those metadata writes then do not make it to disk due to a power failure, the …

Veeam Community discussions and solutions for: Windows 2019, large REFS and deletes of Veeam Backup & Replication.

Veeam B&R v11 and ReFS ... The ReFS filesystem is commonly used for Virtualization, Backup, and Microsoft Exchange because of its resiliency, real ...

Resilient File System (ReFS) is a new file system of Windows Server operating systems, and the Windows Server 2016 version brings new ...

Nov 06, 2018 · ReFS relies on flush durability, meaning that if filesystem metadata write operations take place, they must be consistently flushed to disk. If a storage destination is used where a cache acknowledges writes before they are written to disk, for example, by a RAID controller or NAS, and those metadata writes then do not make it to disk due to a ...

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Veeam Backup & Replication does have built-in compression and deduplication that is applied to the backup data as it lands on a repository that is formatted with ReFS however . This storage efficiency will show significant space savings when multiple GFS restore points or synthetic full backups are kept on disk .

For ReFS based file systems the recommendation is to add 0.5 GB RAM per TB of ReFS storage. However, you don't have to scale this indefinitely. 128GB of RAM are ...

Central to the ReFS integration leveraged in Veeam is the fast cloning capability . The ReFS API, Block Cloning, will create synthetic backups without moving the data blocks between files, and instead, references backup file blocks already present

Veeam Backup & Replication offers some significant benefits that provide greater performance and new space- and time-saving features when using ...

We mapped 16 luns to the Veeam Repo server (so the storage can use all its processors for IO). We used disk spanning to create one big ReFS.

17.03.2017 · The reason for this is that the Veeam software needs to know it is ReFS and then write to it as ReFS file system. In your case you just copied files. In this case the easiest thing to do is schedule a compact on the files you copied. Once the compact is done the backup files will have been written out for ReFS and your improvements will occur.

Jun 17, 2021 · Re: REFS/XFS. If you format your backup repository with ReFS and XFS you can benefit from advanced features like fast cloning or spaceless full backups. This means if you configure your job to use synthetic full backups, those will be created much faster then compared to non ReFS/XFS file systems and take less space on disk (only the delta ...

Jun 29, 2017 · This post will focus on Microsoft Resilient File System (ReFS) as Veeam's ReFS integration which allows not only time saving, but also space savings. Update: Veeam 9.5 U2 ISO is available. We wrote about Veeam and ReFS in detail in our post here – Veeam 9.5 and Microsoft ReFS – Win Win for a Virtualization Admins, but this was before the ...

Windows Server 2019 (requires Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 or later); Windows Server 2016 patched to at least September 2018 ...