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How can I increase the speed of the backup to an Iomega Rev drive
We have 2 Iomega Rev drives - a 35GB and a 120 GB. Both are USB 2 connected to a windows 2003 standard server r2 sp2.
Backup exec 12 is our backup program. The transmission rate to the Iomega varies from 29 MB/min to 60 MB/min. It doesn't matter if it is a full backup, incremental, an ad hoc document directory, etc. It is slow. Occasionally, it will fun 350 MB/Min - something around there is about what I expect.
How can we increase our speed - our full backup is taking 8-10 hours sometimes, then on a good dat 2.5 hours (fast transfer speed).
Thank you
Backup exec 12 is our backup program. The transmission rate to the Iomega varies from 29 MB/min to 60 MB/min. It doesn't matter if it is a full backup, incremental, an ad hoc document directory, etc. It is slow. Occasionally, it will fun 350 MB/Min - something around there is about what I expect.
How can we increase our speed - our full backup is taking 8-10 hours sometimes, then on a good dat 2.5 hours (fast transfer speed).
Thank you
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Rob Hutchinson
If the server is older, I've also seen a badly fragmented hard drive slow backups way down to a crawl so check this as well.
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Hi,
Brand new server. 1 gig in 3 mins approximately when copied directly to the iomega. Have tried other usb ports.
Any other ideas before I call symantec? someitmes they are not helpful with regard to hardware devices.
J
Brand new server. 1 gig in 3 mins approximately when copied directly to the iomega. Have tried other usb ports.
Any other ideas before I call symantec? someitmes they are not helpful with regard to hardware devices.
J
It appears to be a lot faster not using Symantec Backup Exec so I'd just either call them or check their support site for someone else who might have had an issue with the same problem.
There is some setting in Backup Exec that is slowing it down so they are the best people to ask about this.
Not fammiliar with those backup drives, but a comman issue that Backup exec has had is with using the drivers from the backup hardware manufacturer or with the drivers built into Backup Exec.
You can try using one of the other to see what result you get.
At least you know it's not a hardware issue since data transfer copying directly works fine.
There is some setting in Backup Exec that is slowing it down so they are the best people to ask about this.
Not fammiliar with those backup drives, but a comman issue that Backup exec has had is with using the drivers from the backup hardware manufacturer or with the drivers built into Backup Exec.
You can try using one of the other to see what result you get.
At least you know it's not a hardware issue since data transfer copying directly works fine.
Backup the rev drive to hard disk first...then back the backup to the tape
ASKER
I reformateted one of the Iomega disks - then ran a backup about 7 gigs worth. It flew - 1200 MB/Min.
Trying a full backup tonight with reformatted disk. Perhaps backup exec has an issue with multiple incrementals and fulls stored on one disk. I'll post results.
Trying a full backup tonight with reformatted disk. Perhaps backup exec has an issue with multiple incrementals and fulls stored on one disk. I'll post results.
If the drive had been in user circualtion for a while, it may have been badly fragmented too, glad to hear it's running faster now =)
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reformatting one drive for 120 meg and 35 meg seems to have fixed the speed of all drives - not sure why. But all are running fast again (even though not all were reformatted - go figure).
So problem is solved for now. reformat.
J
So problem is solved for now. reformat.
J