Re: Backup Speed - troughput

[Daniel Knight]

>Actually no, you can see from my log that it actually reports an incomplete
>backup due to arriving at wrap-up time at 8:30am. Just to make it clear, it
>does not go through all my clients and I always have some not beeing backed
>up on a nighly basis.

Thanks for clarifying. Do any of these people have their Macs set to go 
to sleep? I find my wife's PowerBook won't wake up for backup.

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Re: Backup Speed - troughput

[Ben Mihailescu]

Actually no, you can see from my log that it actually reports an incomplete
backup due to arriving at wrap-up time at 8:30am. Just to make it clear, it
does not go through all my clients and I always have some not beeing backed
up on a nighly basis.

Ben

Daniel Knight wrote:

> >Also, as you can see from my log, my backup server is spending a lot of
> >time (idle/loading/preparing).
>
> You didn't note when the last machine was backed up. I'm guessing about
> 13 hours earlier. Once Retrospect is done backing up, all remaining time
> is idle time.
>
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Re: Backup Speed - troughput

[Daniel Knight]

>Also, as you can see from my log, my backup server is spending a lot of
>time (idle/loading/preparing).

You didn't note when the last machine was backed up. I'm guessing about 
13 hours earlier. Once Retrospect is done backing up, all remaining time 
is idle time.

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Backup Speed - troughput

[Ben Mihailescu]

Hello all,
My question might seem silly, yet I just want to make sure. At the end
of my nightly script after wrap-up I get a total performance line in my
log. Is this the average throughput of my backup?
"8/23/2000 8:54:40 AM: Execution stopped between sources, wrap up
time reached
 8/23/2000 8:54:40 AM: Execution incomplete
 Total performance: 35.3 MB/minute
 Total duration: 14:54:25 (13:33:02 idle/loading/preparing)
 Quit at 8/23/2000 9:27 AM"
Also, as you can see from my log, my backup server is spending a lot
of time (idle/loading/preparing). I figured it is happening because I was
really low in disk space (about 200MB left) and Retrospect kept having
to compress the catalog as it goes along. I had just increased disk space
by 4GB and I hope tonight it will do better/faster.
If anybody would care to comment on the above, it would be greatly
appreciated.
Hardware:
PII266, 196MB RAM, 6.4GB HDD, Quantum DLT 4000 SCSI Tape Drive.
TIA, Ben
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