glaviolette Posted July 17, 2002 Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 I am new user of Retrospect Server after recently coming from Veritas and I am noticing that after each "differential" it takes an entire snapshot of the source which adds a lot of time to my backups. Even longer that Veritas! For example, I have a script that for its "full backup" (recycled/new catalog) it takes about 10 hours to backup (for 40GB), but the "differential" during the weekday takes 3 hours (for 1.5GB). It's obviously most noticable on servers that have large number of files, in the previous example the server has 100,000+ items. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, glaviolette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted July 17, 2002 Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 That is correct. We always take a picture "snapshot" of the entire source at the time of backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaviolette Posted July 17, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 Thanks for the quick reply! Ok... Seems silly that it would backup all that information again. I'm no developer, but it seems that could be engineered more efficiently while still keeping the same functionality. It sort of goes against the whole Retrospect IncrementalPLUS philosophy of backing up data that you already have in the backup set. In a way... I don't mean to bash, I'm just trying to get this to work... Thanks, glaviolette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lv2ski Posted July 17, 2002 Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 Well, its not backing anything up. Its making a picture of it so that we can restore the entire source the way it was when you backed it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaviolette Posted July 17, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 I understand, and then isn't that picture saved to the backup set? And isn't that picture generally similar to all the other pictures it has saved for that set except for the changes to the source as of each backup ? I'm not trying to start an argument, I just want you to understand my point so that I am sure how this thing works... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glaviolette Posted July 17, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 I believe I found some of the answers to my questions, thanks for your help. http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=knowledgebase_article&id=532 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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