Few thoughts / questions:
24 hours seems awfully high, especially without a verify.
* are you doing brick-level backups of exchange?
* can you do a weekly full and daily diff on the data files?
* how fragmented is the server?
* how fragmented is the external drive?
* I am not familiar with BackupAssist, but does it have an Advanced
File Open option like Backup Exec does
* Can you break your big job up into smaller jobs to see where the
bottleneck is?
* what speed is your SCSI/RAID card?
* How is your USB card connected (integrated vs card). If card, what
is the architecture of the card (PCI, PCI-X, etc)
* Do you need to offload backups?
* If you absolutely had to, could you take your exchange off line,
copy the necessary files, and then bring it back online?
Klint
Jim Majorowicz wrote:
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> I think I've been tasked with making something near impossible happen,
> so I'm going to start by asking the question here then start my
> google-fu. My boss has just asked for a backup solution that will do
> the following:
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> Complete a full backup of SBS 2003 server.
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> There is currently nearly 300 GB of data on this server.
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> Wants Exchange included (Currently about 30 GB in size)
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> Wants a system state
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> Wants it verified.
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> Must be complete in 10 Hours!
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> The current backup system is taking about 24 hours to do this not
> including the verify, and I think there may be an I/O problem as it is
> NTBACKUP with BackupAssist v.4.0.16 backing up to a USB 2.0 drive.
> Unless my math is off, this backup should only take about 5 hours,
> assuming the transfer occurs at about 20 Mbps. Unfortunately there is
> some sort of bottleneck that is throttling this back to about 4.
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> What am I missing that would help me fix this problem?
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