Modern backup software systems use VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) information to do incremental backups. Here you find deep ...
The question was around VMFS block sizes and the way it could potentially have its effect on the size of a backup which uses CBT.
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) on virtual machines (1020128)
The size of the "ctk" file that gets created stays the same and does not grow beyond the original size unless the size of the virtual disk is increased ...
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) does not identify the deleted data inside
The size of the “ctk” file that gets created stays the same and does not grow beyond the original size unless the size of the virtual disk is increased. The size of the “ ...
To perform incremental backup, Veeam Backup & Replication needs to know what data blocks have changed since the previous job session....
VMware Change Block Tracking (CBT) and the issue with incremental
Long story short. With CBT enabled (Changed Block Tracking) Barracuda is only supposed to back up "changed disk blocks". It does this at the virtualization level, ...
Before vSphere 5.5, when writing to SAN during restore, disk size had to be a multiple of ...