Veritas 9.1 backups taking 20+ hours

[gpastorelli]

Greetings,
I have 3 servers running Veritas 9.1. I'm not too experienced with Veritas in the least bit but it's what they used here before I got hired.

As of recently, 2 of the servers take upwards of 15-20 hours to do a backup and they're still not even done. I have my backup configured to start at 6PM and it's still going when I come in at 8:30AM, I've let it go as long as 20 hours total before cancelling it.

The only thing that seems to have changed is that the Backup engine is periodically failing during the night and restarting itself.

I don't know too much about the program to properly troubleshoot it so if anyone has any input or ideas with regard to what I should check/do it would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks,
Greg

Greg Pastorelli, Network Administrator
Pocono Community Bank
MCSE:Security, MCDST, C|EA
Security+, Network+, A+

 

[gpastorelli]

I didn't see an edit button but I forgot to mention the discs that are being backed up are only about 20-30 GB in size.

 

[LawnBoy]

the Backup engine is periodically failing

I would reinstall.

 

[shellac]

Does it fail at the same time every night? It could be stuck on a particular resource it's trying to backup. I had that problem and I had to disable the "backup to disk" jobs I had scheduled. Check Event Viewer and make see if there's any errors in there that can give a hint to what's going on. Check EventID.net for any error messages.

 

[gpastorelli]

I reinstalled veritas and it's been working well..except just one of the servers today failed with a Data error (cyclic redundancy check) error. Any insight on that (never had that error before)? I'm going to search for an answer but figured I'd post that up here.

Thanks,

Greg

 

[LawnBoy]

Well... If you mean a BE job is failing because of CRC you've probably got a bad tape. If you mean the server locked up with a CRC error you probably have a bad hard drive/controller or possibly RAM issues.