Transfer Rate issue
Hey everyone, Quick question - possibly a simple fix. I run a staged backup that does a differential M-TH and a full on Friday each with their own drive. The transfer rates for most of these jobs...
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Check and make sure that something like an AV scan isn't perhaps running at that time, and scanning the B2D folder as well.
Nah that scan doesn't initiate until late friday - and although currently yes it would initiate while the backup is running, that is only because the backup is running so slowly - it should instead finish by then (should be taking around 18 hours - starts at 4pm Thursday and the AV doesn't scan until 10pm Friday (30 hours later) but it's actually taking over 48 hours currently. (It's larger than wednesday but wednesday only takes 14 hours).
And have you checked fragmentation on the HDD in question?
So that drive is off-site and so I haven't been able to look at it thuroughly but in order to have the opportunity I decided to instead append the Thursday backup onto my Tuesday drive (allowing me to have some downtime with Thursdays drive).
The Thursday differential that is now backing up on Tuesday's drive is running MUCH faster, and more in line with what I would expect (taking only 16-18 hours it looks like) which I think supports the idea that the issue is with the drive itself. Now that I have a week to play with it I have the time to format the drive and I hope this will solve the issue.
Thanks for the responses, let me know if you think I am going the wrong way with this.
