How long

[LDaveM]

I have a client who is running W2K server, P4-1.6 GHZ, 256 RAM, 30GB SCSI RAID 5 and a Seagate SCSI tape drive on its own SCSI controller. They have about 11GB of data on the HD. They are backing up the complete HD. It is taking 30 hours to do this. My question is this appx yhe correct amount of time?
Thanks,
Dave

 

[Grenage]

I would have to say thats way off then. We do more than that in about 6 hours here.

 

[2ffat]

We back up and verify over 4GB in 1 1/2 hours. Our average throughput is 53.1 MB/sec. Thirty hours sounds excessive to me. Look at your logs and see what your average throughput is. You not have your SCSI configured correctly. You also didn't mention what type of drive you use, DAT, LTO, QIC, etc. If your drive can't handle the higher throughput, you may need a faster drive, too.
James P. Cottingham

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I have done so much with so little
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qualified to do anything with nothing.

 

[SQLBill]

I'm backing up 147+ GB and it only takes me 4 hrs 45 minutes using LTO tapes. I agree with the previous post, check out your configurations of the scsi and/or tape drive.

-Bill

 

[LDaveM]

Tape drive is TapeStor Travan 20 SCSI backup speed 120 MB /minute, compressed. SCSI setting, how do I check them?
Dave