Re: NTBackup requires 18-23 hours to complete.

Les,
I understand that NTBackup wants to do everything all at once, but I belive
that is where it is hurting itself. I eliminated the 2 volumes that were
taking approx 6 hours and 8+ hours from my backup job and ran it last night.
I had to cancel it this morning since it wasn't finished with the remaining
volumes which should have taken 4-5 hours and it wasn't 50% through that.

Somewhere NTBackup is either a lower priority or is not working correctly.
IT is not my drives as I have run robocopy batches on them copying/verify
50GB and it didn't take < 1 hour to complete. Seems only NTBackup is having
trouble with throughput.

--
Sean


"Les Connor [SBS MVP]" wrote:

SBS backup does two backups of Exchange. One is a file based backup,
including logfiles, the other is the 'Exchange Aware' backup, which commits
the logfiles. I don't remember the exact details, but in order for both
exchange and system state to be backed up in the one job, an SBS box has
some custom settings.

When operating outside of SBS backup, or if using other backup methods in
addition to SBS backup, one may need to make sure they don't step on each
other.

I'd be inclined to either use SBS backup as-is; and leave the other methods
out of the equation; but if that doesn't suit you - run the wizard and
select 'do not use sbs backup' and do things your own way using whatever
methods do suit you.

SBSbackup is designed to equal the lowest common denominator in a backup
strategy that will restore the server.

--
Les Connor [SBS MVP]
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"Sean" <Sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry didn't see your post in this thread.

I run the backup wizard and then customized the BKS file and excluded the
drives/folders that I don't want backed up. It works it just takes an
exceptionally long time to backup the exchange logs volume. I could
exclude
it manually but then I wouldn't have the Exchange transaction logs backed
up,
I'd have the Exchange Store though.

I've run NTBackup without the wizard on a few directories to see if I can
benchmark it's performance, but it's all over the place during business
hours. I've setup a scheduled backup tonight without the Logs and will see
how long it takes.
--
Sean


"Drasko" wrote:

"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.

I'll repeat my question:

Sean!

Have you tried to make your own bks file with folders that you want to
back
up? Create a simple batch file with ntbackup command line with options,
and
make a schedule task to run daily?

Dra




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