Jacob, I think file fragmentation is probably your issue. One of our old 200 Mhz file servers has a 100 GB RAID-5 array and a Seagate AIT-1 tape drive (3 MB/sec native). It doesn't utilize the tape drive full tilt, of course.
Here's the performance info I got from our last BackupExec 8.5 daily backup: Backup completed on 3/28/2002 at 6:16:48 AM. Backed up 294134 files in 39369 directories. 3 files were in use Processed 40,714,874,119 bytes in 6 hours, 30 minutes, and 53 seconds. Throughput rate: 99.3 MB/min -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 3:20 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Veritas backup rate? either way.. did not matter.... Try both on and off. When it was one, it said compression rate was 1:1. At 09:05 AM 4/4/2002 +1200, you wrote: >do you have hardware or software compression turned on? > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, 4 April 2002 9:04 a.m. >To: NT 2000 Discussions >Subject: RE: Veritas backup rate? > > >At 03:18 PM 4/3/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >A Couple of Questions... > >Did you do a Verify on either of these? > >verify as in verify data when backed up? I disabled that. Both enabled >and disabled made no difference. > > >Also what does your Backup window look like? > >Well, we work from 600am to 500pm, so my backup window is between 500pm and >600am. I planned on doing full backups every night, but going to change >that. Full backups on Friday and incremental the other nights. > > >Do these tapes go Offsite? > >That is the plan. > > >With Veritas is it running on this local machine or across a network > >On the local machine. Veritas Backup Exec 8.6 is running on the server >which is connected via SCSI cable to the Benchmark. > > >Did you run Win2k Backup Over a network? > >Local. > >What I was going to do was backup all the servers to the local hard >drive. The hard drive is 73GB and we have about 40 GB of data that we want >to back up. This includes all SQL databases, html, jpg, and gifs. Then, >once the files were copied onto the hard drive, running Veritas to back up >that hard drive. I used FileSync to copy the files across the >network. That runs fine. It is using Veritas to do the backup to Tape or >another local hard drive that is slow. > > > > > > >Joshua Morgan > >PH: (864) 250-1350 Ext 133 > >Fax: (413) 581-4936 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 2:45 PM > >To: NT 2000 Discussions > >Subject: RE: Veritas backup rate? > > > > > >Okay... My test... > > > >Did a backup of 19,800 files for a total of 164 MB in one folder. I used > >the built-in Windows 2000 backup software and got a rate of 29 MB / min... > >woohoo!!! > > > >That created one large file that I then backed up to tape. The rate using > >Veritas was 11.4 MB / min. So instead of backups taking 2 days, I cut it > >down to 1 day and 23 hours...LOL. > > > >Looking at possible hardware issues next... tried two different SCSI cables > >and a new SCSI controller... > > > >At 10:12 AM 4/3/2002 -0800, you wrote: > > >Guess I will try that... let you know what happens. > > > > > >At 01:10 PM 4/3/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > >>I would test it but Yes > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>Joshua Morgan > > >>PH: (864) 250-1350 Ext 133 > > >>Fax: (413) 581-4936 > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>-----Original Message----- > > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >>Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:07 PM > > >>To: NT 2000 Discussions > > >>Subject: RE: Veritas backup rate? > > >> > > >> > > >>So, backup with the Windows 2000 built-in backup software, then backup > > >>that one large .bkf file to the tape? > > > > > > > >------ > >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > > > >------ > >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > > > >------ >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > > >********************************************************************** >This email is not an official statement of the Waikato >Regional Council unless otherwise stated. >Visit our website http://www.ew.govt.nz >********************************************************************** > > >------ >You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp >To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
