Bill: The UD backup was only 160MB for the test. I suspect it will get to the size of the .NET backup (1GB) within six to twelve months. We'd like all of this to be scripted, as the servers are administered remotely.
Bill >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brutzman, Bill >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:45 AM >To: '[email protected]' >Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups > >1. How big is the data? > >2. How about (OS) copying to disk and then to a portable >hard-drive or burn >to DVD? > >--Bill > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Haskett >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:29 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [U2] UD Backups > > >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 >------- >u2-users mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ >------- >u2-users mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
