Re: Backup Using USB External Drive



On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:05:04 -0700, Mike G <MikeG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I am testing a WD external drive w/ USB 2.0 connection to backup our
>PowerEdge 600SC server running windows server 2000. It is imperative that we
>can recover quickly in the event of system problem. Windows 2000 server
>recognizes the External Drive. I am able to copy data from the system drive
>to the external drive via the USB connection. I have also tested using
>NTBackup and Backup Exec. They appear to work OK ...but very very slow. Only
>about 55MB per minute. Anyone have any thoughts on why so slow? I'd like to
>hear your thoughts and/or experiences. Also does Dell offer any solutions
>in this area?

For your information, I have just backed up 13 GB in 17 minutes. I did have to
run Ad-Aware, NOAdware, spybot SD and finally a defrag to get that sort of
speed. I then use the hard disk for the first copy. That goes on the second
internal Hard disk. From there I would let it copy to the external USB2 hard
disk.

Borge
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