Hello everyone,
For years I've been telling my client that he needs to invest in a better backup solution other than Windows Server Backup. This weekend I found out why, and it was something I did not know beforehand. Upon his server crashing, he had a WD backup drive (an older one) that we used to perform weekly backups to that had basically all of the files and folders on his server backed up to. He uses a sophisticated tax program, as he is an accountant. Inside one of the folders of this program where his tax data for all of his clients is stored, there were a few hundred folders. Well, I went to restore the main folder of this program which had the few hundred subdirectories under it. Upon starting the restoration, it came up with a message/error that stated something to the effect that this folder has more than 1000 files/folders under it and that Windows Server Backup was limited to restoring 1000 files/folders at a time and nothing more. The question I have is, am i really going to have to restore this data folder by folder? Is there any way around this with the backup that we have here? It is scary to think that I may have to literally go through the 10 step restore wizard in Windows Server Backup for 100's of folders and do each restoration individually. Also, why would Microsoft create a backup solution for a server that has this limitation??
