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SMI
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15 years ago

Holiday Schedule Stopping Backups in Backup Exec 12 ver 1364?

Each time there is a holiday, it seems it takes a week before I get a good backup again. This time, coincidentally, our backup went to requiring two tapes rather than one. I have cleaned up the server...
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    pkh
    15 years ago
    Check your job log and look at the compression ratio.  If as you said, the files are not changed then the compression ratio should remain the same.
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pkh
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15 years ago

I think what happened is that the type of files that you are backing up has cnanged resulting in in poorer compression, thus less data on the tape.  For example, jpegs and movies compress poorly.  Installing hotfixes will not fix this kind of problems.  You got tackle this from the data standpoint.

With the user on, your backup job will definitely take longer.  There are a lot more contention for resources, network bandwidth, CPU cycles, etc.