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Ribblesdale · 01-21-2010

Hi everyone, first post here. We've been using Backup Exec 12.5 for windows servers for 4-5 months now with no problems until quite recently. We backup our important data on a nightly basis using backup exec and a single slot quantum tape drive, wi...

Ribblesdale · 01-25-2010

Well it seems to be sorted now. We didn't have AOFO on, but it appears that the file server was simply too full to operate quickly. The security log files were set to archive after 2GB, so there were 30GB of files cramming the system drive. I sorted ...

Ribblesdale · 01-22-2010

The data being backup up is on D drive (of the file server, seperate from the backup server), which has tonnes of space, but drive C (system drive) is almost full. Would this still slow things down? Thanks!

Ribblesdale · 01-22-2010

Thanks for your reply - fortunatley we havn't had a disk failure but I have been doing a bit more digging. The main file server's system disk was almost full - I assume that would affect the backup speeds. This needs sorting out! I'm running a back...

Ribblesdale · 01-21-2010

Hi, thanks for your thorough reply! Very helpful! 1. Not entirely sure of the speed of the tape drive, however this hasn't been changed at all - so strange for speed to drop so much. 2. There are lots of individual files, I know that backuping up lo...

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Well it seems to be sorted

The data being backup up is

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