lunadesign Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 I haven't upgraded to Retrospect 9 yet but was wondering about the performance implications of enabling Block Level Incremental Backup. I realize that using it could potentially reduce the amount of data to be backed up (which could speed things up). However, does enabling this feature require extra processing power / time (either on the server or client) to do all the comparisons? BTW, does anyone know what kind of checksum is being used for the block comparisons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunadesign Posted August 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Does anybody have any info on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scillonian Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 I have not noticed any additional processing requirement on either server or clients from having enabled Block Level backups. Because I have very few files on my clients that are suitable for Block Level backup I can not say if there is any significant reduction in backup time. The advantage I have noticed, because the few eligible files I do have are multi-gigabyte files, is the reduction in storage space required by the backup set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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