Best Practices and Recommendations

Please consider the following recommendations:

To ensure an optimal backup/restoration performance, it is highly recommended to set the temporary directory folder to a location with sufficient free disk space. It must be on another location other than these drives:
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Drive C: (e.g. Drive E:)
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The periodic backup schedule should be reviewed regularly to ensure that the interval is sufficient to handle the data volume on the machine. Over time, data usage pattern may change on a production server, i.e. the number of new files created, the number of files which are updated/deleted, and new users may be added etc.

Consider the following key points to efficiently handle backup sets with periodic backup schedule.
- Hardware - – to achieve optimal performance, compatible hardware requirements is a must. Ensure you have the backup machine’s appropriate hardware specifications to accommodate frequency of backups,
  - so that the data is always backed up within the periodic backup interval
  - so that the backup frequency does not affect the performance of the production server
- Network - make sure to have enough network bandwidth to accommodate the volume of data within the backup interval.
- Retention Policy - also make sure to consider the Retention Policy settings and Retention Area storage management which can grow because of the changes in the backup data for each backup job.

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