Solved Windows Server 2016 Backup and file system support

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Can anyone point me to a good reference location to get information on the drives supported with the native Windows Server Backup tool? I ran across a practice question that asked about using a backup volume that was formatted with exFat and mounted to a local folder rather than a drive letter. I couldn't get this working in the lab, in fact if you point the wizard at a drive it will reformat it with NTFS. It also seems that if you use ReFS that you can't do incremental backups?

Regards,
Adam Tyler

Adam,

I hope all is well.

Start with this:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2510009/microsoft-support-policy-for-4k-sector-hard-drives-in-windows

Specific to ReFS and using it as a backup target, look at the following, specifically, the section titled Backup Target about 1/2 way down the page:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs/refs-overview

You should also probably take a look at this, as it is a good walk through of the different options available as you configure Windows Backup:

https://nedimmehic.org/2017/04/24/install-and-configure-windows-server-backup-2016-part-1/

Start with that and let me know what else you have questions about, if anything.

Cheers,

Adam