jeffhoffman Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 How long should grooming take? I've got a 5.4TB RAID that's split up for use by 4 backup sets. I started a manual grooming process using the default grooming policy on a backup set about 23 hours ago, and it's still running. This backup set holds Exchange 2007 data and is set to use a max of 30% of the available disk space. All yesterday and well into the night the Activity Monitor says Retrospect was "Matching", reading files and tallying sizes. Since I came into work this morning it's flashing "Please wait..." and down below the message it says "Completed 0 files 691.4 GB 19:29:17 sec 0/0 MB/min". I don't want to stop the process if it's anywhere close to accomplishing the grooming task, yet I have no idea how long I should wait. Of course, last night's Exchange backup run is still waiting to execute until the grooming is completed. The Task Manager says Retrospect.exe is using between 8 - 13% of CPU, so it must be doing something, just don't know what... Any thoughts? Thanks, Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 I have seen large grooming operations last over 24 hours. You just need to let it finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffhoffman Posted April 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I have seen large grooming operations last over 24 hours. You just need to let it finish. Thank you for the response. It did take somewhere around 27-28 hours to complete. Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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