andylow Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Windows Multi server 7.5 - exchange server on a seperate machine - both running Win2003 server. Exchange has aprox 40gig of data - and usualy does a full backup in 90..100 mins. Sometimes it takes 8 hrs or even longer. Neither machine shows any excessive CPU of LAN use. It has happend to tape and to disk, after a reboot of both machines and not after. Pausing and restarting has no effect. Frequently - attempting to stop teh backup has no detectable effect - the buttons on the dialogue do change shading but nothing actually seems to happen. Trying to exit the application - it sits there saying "Exiting" but I suspect it is lying. Left it for 10 hrs so far then got bored. Killed with task manager - but this has on a coupple of occaisions trashed the backup set info. This seems to happen every few weeks. Nothing in the Event Logs or in the Retrospect logs. Anyone seen this before - got any clues ? Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Hi Andy - Do you do any brick level mailbox backups or are you backing up only the Storage Groups? What do your Retrospect logs say when this happens? Any additional information from the Windows Event Logs? Thanks, Amy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andylow Posted February 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 One that worked:: - 12/02/2007 18:32:42: Copying First Storage Group on ims1 Backup type: Full 12/02/2007 19:57:40: Execution completed successfully Completed: 3 files, 37.8 GB Performance: 456.2 MB/minute Duration: 01:24:58 (00:00:08 idle/loading/preparing) ============ One that worked (?) and took ages then refused to finish properly:: - 19/02/2007 18:32:51: Copying First Storage Group on ims1 Backup type: Full 20/02/2007 03:04:43: Execution completed successfully Completed: 3 files, 38.9 GB Performance: 77.7 MB/minute Duration: 08:31:51 (00:00:09 idle/loading/preparing) <Nothing else in log - tried pauseing/restarting - tried Stopping - tried exiting - none appeard to do anything> There were some interesting events but both servers seem to be functioning normaly. Event Type: Warning Event Source: smtpsvc Event ID: 2012 Date: 20/02/2007 01:26:43 SMTP could not connect to the DNS server '<an external router>'. The protocol used was 'UDP'. It may be down or inaccessible. Then again at 8am - Thats all there is. I did do a full store backup and a per mailbox backup onece - both took the same time. (not sure I understand the term "brick") Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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