Re: NTBackup - Verify takes excessively long

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"Luke Wingfield Digby" <Luke Wingfield Digby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:605CD0CD-021A-4FDC-ACB6-3DA6B094BDAA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I'm using windows server 2003, and do a nightly full backup to a network
> share. The network share is on a windows XP box which is being used for
the
> sole purpose of storing the backups.
>
> Until a couple of days ago the whole backup process including verification
> was taking just under 6 hours (about 30GB). Then two nights ago the
process
> started taking a great deal longer. On inspecting the logs its appears
the
> cummulative time taken to backup C: D: & System state is just under 3
hours.
> The verify part of the backup is taking over 20 hours.
>
> It is my understanding that the verfiy should take about as long as the
> backup itself. Can someone please advise me on how to resolve this, or if
> there is a different newgroup where this may be more relevant.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Luke

Run the backup in the foreground so that you can see what's
going on. The verification process might wait for some file to
become available.


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