Hi guys, couldn't find an ntbackup forum.... but i know that backup exec used to be based on the same engine so this might be the place for this question.....
i've configured a disaster recovery server (it's really a high end dell workstation dual-core) and put an LTO3 drive into it and i'm using ntbackup to do test restores of our backup tapes (created with backup exec 12.5).
Everything works, but there is one v puzzling thing. Catalogues take about an hour! It takes so long i think it's crashed, but it always works. Once the catalogue job is done restores are very quick.
As i said, everything works and i can live with this as it's only on the emergency server. But i'm v puzzled and definitely it's different on my other servers (proLiant quad cores). On all of them catalogues take only a few minutes.
Is this huge delay caused ntbackup struggling to understand a backup exec tape or is it just down to hardware?
i've configured a disaster recovery server (it's really a high end dell workstation dual-core) and put an LTO3 drive into it and i'm using ntbackup to do test restores of our backup tapes (created with backup exec 12.5).
Everything works, but there is one v puzzling thing. Catalogues take about an hour! It takes so long i think it's crashed, but it always works. Once the catalogue job is done restores are very quick.
As i said, everything works and i can live with this as it's only on the emergency server. But i'm v puzzled and definitely it's different on my other servers (proLiant quad cores). On all of them catalogues take only a few minutes.
Is this huge delay caused ntbackup struggling to understand a backup exec tape or is it just down to hardware?