fhbeng Posted March 10, 2003 Report Share Posted March 10, 2003 I have Retrospect installed doing a complete backup of the C: & D: drives on a Win2k server (sp3) It is scheduled to do a recycle backup every weekday at 10pm, when the office is empty. Some days the backup freezes as it starts to backup the D: drive. There doesn't seem to be any pattern as to what days it will freeze, it all seems fairly random. The last item is the Log is the one re: starting to backup D: Any help appreciated. Thanks, fhbeng Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted March 10, 2003 Report Share Posted March 10, 2003 Is the D: drive IDE? USB? Firwire? How is it attached and configured? Check the drive with a disk utility. If IDE, try making it the Master drive on the second channel If USB or Firewire, make sure the drive is plugged directly into the computer - and not through a hub or on a chain with other devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fhbeng Posted March 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2003 D: is a NTFS partition on a hardware RAID5 set (SCSI). Some folders on the volume use NTFS compression, could this be a cause? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 No - compression should not affect the ability to backup the drive. Since it's a SCSI drive, make sure the RAID is isolated - not chained together with other drives. Check termination and cabling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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