rmichaelbarr Posted March 16, 2010 Report Share Posted March 16, 2010 It appears Retrospect is incapable of backing up folders that are set for DFS Replication in Windows 2008 R2. Retrospect can browse the folders and see the files and counts through them while 'scanning' prior to backup, but after the scan, any folders that have DFSR enabled are not checked and cannot be checked. Stopping the DSFR service on the server allows the folders to be backed up but that's very limiting. Open file backup is enabled so it's not simply a matter of the DFSR service holding them open (it doesn't, since users can open and modify files). Anyone else experianced this??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 DFS is not supported at this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmichaelbarr Posted May 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2010 Very disappointing. I haven't seen any other backup program with this limitation. Are there plans to support DFSR in the future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertdana Posted May 7, 2010 Report Share Posted May 7, 2010 Robin, can you be more specific about which DFS uses are "unsupported"? We are currently using 7.6 on Windows 2003 server. We have several file shares that have referrals set up in the DFS namespace (not replicated), and have no problem backing those up (via a local client). I see that Retrospect does not support accessing shares via the DFS namespace. This is easily worked around by accessing the shares with their normal names. But the OP sounds like they are trying to back up *local* files that happen to be replicated via DFS, and that is failing. Is this really not supported? That seems like a pretty big issue. We are looking at migrating to 7.7 and then Windows 2008 (separate projects), and DFSR is a very attractive feature... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaBank Posted July 23, 2010 Report Share Posted July 23, 2010 In my case, backing up the local folder (E:\Folder) that is part of a DFS share (\\lan.com\Folder\) would backup under 7.6. Under 7.7, Retrospect will find the local folder, but reports it as not having any files inside to backup. A bug, a BIG KILLER BUG. I wonder what changed on which side that it works in 7.6 but not in 7.7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulSmart Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 (edited) x Edited December 21, 2010 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmichaelbarr Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmichaelbarr Posted January 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Mayoff, I never received a reply as to future support of DFS Replicated volumes. Is there going to be a future version of Retrospect for Windows at all?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Yes, we do have new versions planned. We have DFS replication on the feature request list, but I do not know when it will be available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmichaelbarr Posted January 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Thanks Robin. That's good to know. I'll keep checking back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmichaelbarr Posted July 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 Robin Mayoff, It's been a few years since I brought up the issue of backing up DFSR enabled volumes. Does the current version of Retrospect support DFSR? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 9, 2013 Report Share Posted July 9, 2013 Have you reviewed this article? http://retrospect.com/en/support/kb/retrospect-and-dfs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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