Backup - How long?

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From: John F Kappler <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:37:21 +0100

The SBS Backup process decides what needs to be backed up and you just
point it at the device that you wish to receive the bkf file....

Our backup device is an external hard drive on a USB2 port.

Our SBServer's C drive is 27.9GB used, and backup is taking 21 hours
to run through to completion! Approx half of this seems to be the
"Verfifying Files" stage.

There doesnt seem to be any significant demand on the processor
(runing around 20% usage).

Is this time period normal? Or indicative of something amiss on the
server?

TIA,

JohnK

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