I was looking around for details of backup for one of the servers I upgraded and although the backups were successful, I noticed that they were of almost same size. This is a VM backed up using VmWare method with target as MSDP. The one big difference was number of files backed up. Full had a lot more files listed than diff backup. See example below. I checked other machines in the cluster and on other clusters too with similar observation. There are a few non-VmWare backups with target MSDP but their FULL is much bigger than a DIFF.
Is it normal that VMWare backups report similar size of data backed up? Is reporting any different for VMware in activity monitor?
This is on a NBU domain with 7.6.0.3.
Thanks.
1176398 Backup Done 0 VmWarePolicy VMWARE-Full clientFQDN nbuMediaServer 2/19/2015 10:02:27 PM MSDP.storage 2/19/2015 10:15:13 PM 1 54283021 174375 1176384
1174320 Backup Done 0 VmWarePolicy VMWARE-Diff clientFQDN nbuMediaServer 2/18/2015 10:01:51 PM MSDP.storage 2/18/2015 10:56:12 PM 1 54109795 664 1174312
1172260 Backup Done 0 VmWarePolicy VMWARE-Diff clientFQDN nbuMediaServer 2/17/2015 10:02:27 PM MSDP.storage 2/17/2015 10:17:12 PM 1 54116914 4624 1172249
1170186 Backup Done 0 VmWarePolicy VMWARE-Diff clientFQDN nbuMediaServer 2/16/2015 10:02:24 PM MSDP.storage 2/16/2015 10:10:43 PM 1 42812231 441 1170177
1168114 Backup Done 0 VmWarePolicy VMWARE-Diff clientFQDN nbuMediaServer 2/15/2015 10:02:22 PM MSDP.storage 2/15/2015 10:11:23 PM 1 42806544 420 1168101
1166044 Backup Done 0 VmWarePolicy VMWARE-Diff clientFQDN nbuMediaServer 2/14/2015 10:02:05 PM MSDP.storage 2/14/2015 10:10:53 PM 1 42810090 410 1166030
1163988 Backup Done 0 VmWarePolicy VMWARE-Diff clientFQDN nbuMediaServer 2/13/2015 10:02:22 PM MSDP.storage 2/13/2015 10:10:52 PM 1 42807184 397 1163979
1161895 Backup Done 0 VmWarePolicy VMWARE-Full clientFQDN nbuMediaServer 2/12/2015 10:02:27 PM MSDP.storage 2/12/2015 10:13:33 PM 1 42928205 176157 1161884
PS: The jump from around 42GB to around 54GB of backed up data was due to temporary data being put on server. FULL and DIFF are still similar in size.