I have a 5 TB file share on Windows. Should I back this up using agent backup or File Share backup? I have a backup copy job to send backups offsite. Currently doing file share backup with retention time set to 4 years. I think the agent based backup would take up more repo disk space (multiple vbk files)?
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NAS File Share backup VS Windows Agent backup
Best answer by MicoolPaul
NAS Backup can go to object storage to btw
In summary though NAS backup jobs are great for file versioning, and necessary for huge (64TB+) volumes unless you’ve got SAN Storage Snapshot integration.
NAS backup consumes more VUL instances than an agent (first 500GB is free per share but one VUL instance per 500GB above) so I’d look into the features of NAS and if you don’t need anything specific I’d stick to agent, the topology is simpler for starters, aka just an agent, no cache repo and proxy!
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