Tech Talk

How to backup DFS data

DFS data can be backedup through User data under shadow copy components. It will be active when if the DFS replication service is running.

The backup job speed will be very low as it is getting backed up through VSS. so its depends on vss writer.

Can we take file level backup instead of selecting through user data?
Yes.. If you have large amount of data to be baced up, then the factor "backup speed" is very important.
Here you need to user pre command and post command on the backup job to stop the dfs replicaton service before taking backup and start the dfs service after backup completion.

What will happen if we take file level backup while DFS replication is running.
You will get only the root folder of the replication folder. When you try to restore, there will be no data available to select.