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From: Pegasus [MVP] on 2 Sep 2009 16:08 "yaro137" <yaro137(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:93a2a1be-87d0-4826-9d36-47ea7833341d(a)a7g2000yqo.googlegroups.com... On Sep 2, 3:55 pm, "Pegasus [MVP]" <n...(a)microsoft.com> wrote: > "yaro137" <yaro...(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message > > news:84600fab-3be1-4a1c-bbf6-4f0105fca04b(a)r9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... > > > For some reason backing up my D: drive started taking over 8 hours. > > Can't see any problems in the backup log. It's around 110GB of data > > backing up to a LTO 2 backup tape. Is there any way of checking why it > > takes so long? > > yaro > > Run the backup job in the foreground and watch what happens. That'd be 8 hours of joy in the middle of the night :) Is there any other way? yaro ========== Run it on a Sunday afternoon. Working outside normal business hours is the cross that all server admins have to bear.
From: Grant Taylor on 2 Sep 2009 16:55 On 09/02/09 15:08, Pegasus [MVP] wrote: > Working outside normal business hours is the cross that all server > admins have to bear. You can say that again!!! Grant. . . .
From: Dusko Savatovic on 3 Sep 2009 03:36 Sometimes it may help to turn off antivirus protection while such lengthy operations take place. I recently had to turn it off while I was copying lare amount of data over the network.. "yaro137" <yaro137(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:84600fab-3be1-4a1c-bbf6-4f0105fca04b(a)r9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... > For some reason backing up my D: drive started taking over 8 hours. > Can't see any problems in the backup log. It's around 110GB of data > backing up to a LTO 2 backup tape. Is there any way of checking why it > takes so long? > yaro
From: yaro137 on 3 Sep 2009 12:46
On Sep 3, 8:36 am, "Dusko Savatovic" <savato...(a)nospam.gmail.com> wrote: > Sometimes it may help to turn off antivirus protection while such lengthy > operations take place. I recently had to turn it off while I was copying > lare amount of data over the network.. > > "yaro137" <yaro...(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message > > news:84600fab-3be1-4a1c-bbf6-4f0105fca04b(a)r9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com... > > > For some reason backing up my D: drive started taking over 8 hours. > > Can't see any problems in the backup log. It's around 110GB of data > > backing up to a LTO 2 backup tape. Is there any way of checking why it > > takes so long? > > yaro Well, when you have to do it you have to do it... Cheers yaro |