I've been testing NTBackup recently. There are some significant time delays in
backuping up a UD system vs a plain Windows system.
All servers run Windows 2003 Server Standard, updated several weeks ago. One
server is an IIS web server using .NET while the other
is a UniData server. There's not a lot of data so the time differences are
pretty significant. Here's some info:
..now pausing the UniData dbms on Mon 06/25/2007 at 23:30:00.53
DBpause successful.
..now starting Windows NTBackup on Mon 06/25/2007 at 23:30:00.56
..now resuming the UniData dbms on Mon 06/25/2007 at 23:52:02.06
DBresume successful.
..zipping (RAR) is now starting on Mon 06/25/2007 at 23:52:02.13
..now ftp'ing files to storage server on Tue 06/26/2007 at 0:32:58.08
sftp> put *.rar
-> remote /AsiAsp2/Asp2_20070625.rar OK
Uploaded 160247944 bytes, 16 seconds, 9751593 bytes/second
sftp> quit
The non-UD server shows:
..now starting Windows NTBackup on Mon 06/25/2007 at 22:55:01.28
..zipping (RAR) is now starting on Mon 06/25/2007 at 22:59:34.23
..now sftp'ing backup to ASI web server on Mon 06/25/2007 at 23:37:07.40
sftp> put *.rar
-> remote /netdrive/archive/Ht1_20070625.rar OK
Uploaded 989484797 bytes, 118 seconds, 8360665 bytes/second
sftp> quit
As can be seen, the 160MB NTBackup is taking 22 minutes on the UD machine and
only 4 minutes for the 990MB backup on the IIS/.NET
machine. I'm guessing it has something to do with files in use.
We really don't want UD shutdown for 22 minutes. When it starts growing we're
going to have a real problem. Can anyone recommend a
fast backup/compression product for a reasonable price?
Thanks,
Bill
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