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karol_urbaniak
Level 3
9 years ago

Snapshot processing taking too long

Hi, recently one of my server have trouble with backup. Every time when backup start SNAPSHOT PROCESSING is taking more then one hour. I have checked various thing and none of them helped: -...
2012
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
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    karol_urbaniak
    9 years ago

    Problem fixed. How?

    - register once again VSS in the system,

    - I have noticed that someone have saved event viewer log files locally on disk. Plenty of files which in total contains 500GB of data were also compress by using  attribute in the file system. I have zipped the files by external application and remove compress attribute.

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karol_urbaniak
Level 3
9 years ago

To CraigV:

How much free disk space do you have in your datastore/s?

I don't know whether I follow you. Could you explain me this ? BackupExec server db is deleted with interval.

Are there any snapshots still waiting to be deleted?

I have deleted them by command 'vssadmin delete shadows /all' and I will test it Today evening.

 

To pkh:

I have restarted server many times so it means that shadow was restarted also. No disk space limit.

 

To mgmasterv2:

Currently no budget for upgrade.

 

When job start on Backup Execs server at 14:00 then I have noticed that on backuped server service Virtual Disk Service is started and stopped after approx 50 minutes. So it takes like  I wrote earlier 50 minutes of trying to get access to VDS service.