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Martin_Isabelle
Level 3
14 years ago

Verifying taking much longer that backup ?

I have BE2010 installed on MS Windows 2008 R2. Backing up on SAS hard disk and appropriate 'agents' are enabled and installed.
Backup starts at 22:00 and completes without warning.  But verify starts at ~00:45 and proceeds until ~04:50.
I cannot understand why verify is taking so long.
Any assistance greatly appreciated,
Martin
2010
Backing Up
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Backup Exec (media server only)

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  • Ken_Putnam's avatar
    Ken_Putnam
    Level 6
    14 years ago
    This may not be the problem, since the job ends at 04:50, but if you have Eject on End selected as part of your job, BackupExec will post an alert to "Remove tape and click OK" when it "ejects" the tape

    Until that prompt is responded to, or the tape is physically ejected from the drive, the job clock keeps ticking

    If this is the case, you can either remove that option, or set up an automatic response of "OK"
  • ZeRoC00L's avatar
    ZeRoC00L
    Level 6
    14 years ago
    Are there any other jobs running on your Backup server or remove agent servers that may slow down the backup ? For example antivirus scanning all files and mailboxes ?
  • ZeRoC00L's avatar
    ZeRoC00L
    Level 6
    14 years ago
    Then I would suggest splitting your big job into multiple smaller ones.
    It would be possible to see if one particular server is causing the slow verify.
  • sksujeet's avatar
    sksujeet
    Level 6
    14 years ago
    Usually that should not take that much time while verifying as your backup is not that big.
    As you know that while bacing up it creates the check sum and while doing verification it will compate the data which is already backed up(it doesn't look the original data while verification). So in your case it is the disk, so please format the  complete disk again or try to do the backup on a n/w disk or other disk to isolate the issue. I have seen the same behviour and had to replace the disk(in my case it was scsi disk)
  • teiva-boy's avatar
    teiva-boy
    Level 6
    14 years ago
    You should try a larger allocation unit size when formatting, the largest possible/available.  This improves performance