Re: NTBackup requires 18-23 hours to complete.

I dont mean to flame you here,

If you go to a cetain extent, and dont have any suggestions left but
questions, you need to exclude questions that doesnt have answers.
You say you have a HW solution that should, by all means, be sufficient to
which I agree, but you dont know If this Is the problem or not.

If you dont know, you need to get to were you DO know if It is the problem
or not. You need to start testing different solutions, I what a change to
another drive/server/USB are examples.

What i see here is that you say "no" to everything and therefore Its
difficult to help you.

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Henrik Arenblad, MCP SBS,







"Sean" <Sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm looking for a solution to resolve the long time it takes for NTBackup
to
complete on my SBS server. It seems everyone thinks I'm doing it wrong and
my
backup/disaster plans are wrong and my choice of hardware is all wrong.

I'm looking for a solution to a specific problem, the time it takes to
complete a single backup. I'm not going to go out and throw USB drives
into
the mix since my plan uses other technologies, and I'm not going to go
into
them here since the plan is not the issue, it is the time it takes for
NTBackup to complete.

I welcome everyone's input, but I'm asking everyone to stay focused on my
problem and not continue to bash details that are not in question.

Thanks and I hope I don't get flamed.

--
Sean


"Sean" wrote:

I am using NTBackup to backup my SBS server and since it takes soooo long
to
complete I began watching the logs.....

I have my Exchange logs going to a seperate volume and it is a whopping
2Gb
of data, seems ntbackup requires 8+ hours to back this up.... Any ideas
how I
can improve this?

I also have the SQl databases for sharepoint located on their own
privarte
volume and ntbackup handles the 33GB of data in 5 hours, which is
reasonable,
I guess.

The other log entries show reasonable performance for the size/type of
files, so I'm sure that there is no problem there.

I want to backup every day but with the server needing 23 hours to
complete,
I can't. I am using Microsoft DPM to fill in the gaps so I can backup
weekly.

Anyone have any suggestions, I don't want to buy more software to run on
this server unless I can show that we are saving something somewhere
else.

The server uses RAID 5 arrays for storage and I backup to hard drives in
the
server and in a seconadry server (DPM) so this is not a tape issue or a
network issue.

Thanks in advance.
--
Sean


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