Performance when backing up from Windows network shares

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The solution should be to do the backups on the machine that hosts the shares, so it is a local (or iscsi mounted) drive. Unfortunately I’m running into problems with this as well…

Successful backup does not contain any files, only empty directories

I was trying to back up a number of smb and iscsi drives that contain directories with hand-crafted permission sets which do not give localhost\SYSTEM or local administrators read access to the contents. When told to file-backup these drives, I get “successful” backups that contain only empty folders. I know the solution to this is simple, give the urbackupclientbackend service permissions to read all the files that it is supposed to backup. Anyway I feel this should be logged as a warning to a…