11-04-2008 02:23 PM
11-10-2008 02:43 PM
It sounds a bit long...
What sort of tape drive do you have? What backup and verify speed is reported in the job log?
Are you using GRT for the backup?
Without GRT and backing up to LTO2, I would expect around 2-3 GB/min backup speed.
11-10-2008 03:14 PM
Exabyte VXA 3 SCSI Sequential Device
GRT is Enabled and Perform VSS Consistency Check is Enabled
Backup Speed is between 630MB - 660MB
Verify After backup is not Selected
Sometimes (very rarely, maybe once) the backup job will take 2:30 hrs but most of the time it takes between 10-13hrs.
11-11-2008 05:24 AM
I would try doing a backup without GRT and the VSS consistency, just to see if that makes a large difference.
If it doesn't then is it possible you could watch the backup process as it happens? Exchange jobs have a pre-processing state before the actual backup starts, and sometimes this can take a while. I wonder if that's the case for you, and it's taking abnormally long.
11-11-2008 09:05 AM
11-12-2008 09:12 AM
11-17-2008 06:09 PM
That sounds about inline with how much mine took and how big my DB was.
My Exchange DB was about 180GB and was taking 22ish hours.
I did a massive restructure of the Exchange arcitecture to multiple SG and databases and a full backup takes about 6 hours now.