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You understand correctly. No, of course they could be different, but since we're at about 22TB right now, we decided for an identical storage and then replicate everything with DFS-R, so that they're essentially mirrors of each other (time-delayed of course). I wish DPM was smart enough to do someth...

Dear folks, I just wanted to update you on the topic as promised. We have decided to get a second, local storage for FS to backup to, and then we DFS-R the data over the "unreliable" link to the remote site. We have configured a maximum of 2 simulatenous syncs; this way we lose only 48 gig...

Thanks for clearing that up!

We'll try to implement this or some variation thereof and then report back here in case someone has a similar issue.

However, this will take up to two months maybe.

Thanks again!

Thank you, this sounds like a plan! Let me just ask a few more details about your idea. 1. The initial media layout contains empty C:\NewTape.fsrm and possibly \\Server\OldTape1.fsrm, \\Server\OldTape2.fsrm etc. - Are the old (UNC) paths in there for restore/inventory purposes? 2. The backup is perf...

No, you're right. DFSR will also fail on the current file(s) and retry. Our tape size already is 24Gb, so it will fail on the current file and start again transferring those 24Gb. But if Firestreamer gets the SMB error, then DPM fill fail on the whole 700Gb backup, so I lose about 30 hours worth of ...

Yes, I was fearing that. The problem for us is not restarting, but missing the allotted slot if a 700Gb backup fails 80% through. I was hoping there would be some sort of undocumented retry count for that in FS. The other option would be this, and maybe bear with me and see how this could be pratica...

Dear Cristalink Support: We've been using FireStreamer for the past year with great success! We do have a little issue though and were wondering if it was possible to tweak FireStreamer to mitigate the problem. We run it over a 1km wireless link, and maybe once or twice a week the link disappears fo...