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manatee
Level 6
10 years ago

bmr backup backup length

NBU 7.6.0.3

Windows Server 2008 R2 sp1, 10GB RAM, 200GB hd

 

i was checking the status of my bmr backup the other night and was surprised to find that it took 8.59 hours to finish. when i first started with bmr backups, they mostly take 2 or 3 hours max to finish.

in this regard, is there a way to know in advance what will affect the backup length of the bmr?

  • Exactly as I thought. 

    The BMR section took all of 11 seconds:  

    02/11/2015 22:00:00 - begin Bare Metal Restore: Bare Metal Restore Save
    02/11/2015 22:00:01 - collecting BMR information
    02/11/2015 22:00:01 - started process bpbrm (pid=23140)
    02/11/2015 22:00:01 - connecting
    02/11/2015 22:00:02 - connected; connect time: 0:00:00
    02/11/2015 22:00:02 - transfering BMR information to the master server
    02/11/2015 22:00:02 - connecting
    02/11/2015 22:00:02 - connected; connect time: 0:00:00
    02/11/2015 22:00:11 - BMR information transfer successful
    02/11/2015 22:00:11 - Info bmrsavecfg (pid=0) done. status: 0: the requested operation was successfully completed

    So, it is the actual data backup that is taking long, right?

    The assumption is that you have ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES in Backup Selection but with 'Allow multiple data streams' in Attributes de-selected?
    If so, all drives letters will be backed up sequentially.

    Enable multiple data streams to ensure all drives are backed up in parallel.