08-05-2013 04:25 PM
Environment:
BE 2012 SP2
Exchange 2007 SP3 CCR cluster
Windows 2008
Problem:
GRT Incremental backups take 3 days to complete while the full only takes a 1 day.
According to this Symantec article http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH65616 I should turn off GRT on the incremental backups. This solution would be acceptable to me but I can't figure out how to do this in BE 2012.
There is only one GRT setting for full or incremental. I have been testing with placing the incremental job on hold and creating another set of jobs for the cluster where only the incremental would run and the full would be on hold.
Any idea how I can create different GRT settings for incremental job?
08-05-2013 05:00 PM
Are you backing up to a tape or disk storage?
Any idea how I can create different GRT settings for incremental job?
You can`t do that in bakcup exec 2012 SP2
08-05-2013 10:48 PM
Was the full backup rerun after applying SP2 ? Are the remote agents on the Exchange server also updated ?
Do ensure Advanced open file option & checkpoint restart is disabled in the backup job properties.
08-05-2013 11:51 PM
Backing up to disk then duplicating to tape. My issue is backing up to disk (~30Mb/min) while doing incremental backup.
The linked document from symantec states that I should be able to create differt GRT settings. The document relates to all versions of BE.
08-05-2013 11:52 PM
Thanks for your reply.
Yes.
Yes.
It is.
08-06-2013 12:19 AM
The above mentioned KB does not apply to all versions of BE actually. It applies to
What is the frequency of backups ? And what's the size of exchange databases, approx amount of logs created each day ?
08-06-2013 12:41 AM
Can you run a Non GRT backup for Full and incremental for the testing purpose?
Later enable GRT again and see how the Incremental backups go..
08-06-2013 08:09 AM
Thanks for pointing out that the document is for those versions. I am not sure why i thought it was for all versions :)
One full backup a week. Used to be one incremental backup a day but I have reduced it recently since the jobs are taking so long to finish. Currently there are 4 incremental a week in addition to the one full.
DB sizes combined are 1.1 TB. there are about 10GB of logs a day.
08-06-2013 08:10 AM
Will do and report back once finished.