The Backup Thread -- RAID is not backup!

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Fruit Smoothies: Mar 28, 2004; The bat with a ZING

I have a number of small business clients all of whom use Windows Backup (Server 2012 R2) to backup to a NAS in another building (they're all multi-office). My question is a basic one: Would the cloud backup simply upload the VHDX files et al. from the NAS? Because that's a big upload every night. Or can it do more clever, differential block changes?

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Fruit Smoothies: Mar 28, 2004; The bat with a ZING

ConfusedUs posted:

Depends on the product and your own snapshot/backup plans. Are you pointing the backup at the same file in the same place? Or are you pointing it at a new file that's a copy/backup of the original?

If it's the same file with some changes, most (not all) will upload just the changed blocks or offer some form of incremental backup.

If you're copying/backing up a whole new file each night, virtually all products will treat it as a new file and upload the whole thing.

The dataset is relatively small, so a full backup is done to the same location every night. I'm not sure how good the UK reseller of CrashPlan is, and if it's even suitable to host Windows Backup sets.

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