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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
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Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Backup Exec (media server only)

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  • Martin_Isabelle's avatar
    Martin_Isabelle
    Level 3
    14 years ago

    Before I decided to format my disk, Try do defrag with a "real" tool instead of the basic defrag that come from Windows. I used Diskkeeper.  This tool indicate that 100% of my disk was fragmented.  It was a totally different result from Windows defrag tool....

    After the defrag with the new tool my analyze problem after my backup is corrected.  The analyze now take only 30min instead of 4 hours.  Plus a speed up my backup.

    Now I understand that Windows default defrag tool is really a bad tool.

    Thanks for your help guys,

    • dondadallc's avatar
      dondadallc
      Level 1
      8 years ago

      I had the same issue: running backups to a network drive and the verify took 12+ hours and then lately, 48+ hours before cancelling.  What was puzzling me, though, was that for a 200G backup, the verify bit count was ever increasing to over a TB before I finally just cancelled the job.

      But thanks for that solution.  I downloaded the trial version of Diskeeper Server Edition and clicked on the optimized button for my 4TB RAID 10 drive.  It was finished in 5 minutes.

      I ran a backup last night and whadayahknow... it verified within a resonable (expected) period of time!

      Thank again!

       

  • sksujeet's avatar
    sksujeet
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    Don't you think the solution should have been marked to Collin Weaver who pointed it rightly?