ppatterson Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Last night I downloaded and install a trial version of Retrospect 7.5. Before bed, I started a session to backup my c: hard drive containing 8.6g. The night before, I re-installed my OEM operating system, Toshiba XP-Home, and applied SP2 updates as well as Explorer 7. This morning around 7am, the backup was still running. It only processed around 2g. This evening after work, around 6pm, the backup was still running with only 3g processed. My backup is to a Buffalo Linkstation HD160 network drive. Is there a problem somewhere? should retrospect take 17hours + to process 3gigs of data? Is my network drive compatable? No encryption is being performed. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 That does sound slow. What is the MB/Min listed in Retrospect? Any errors? What is the speed when you drag and drop files to the Buffalo? Is this a wired or wireless connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppatterson Posted December 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 Here are the statistics from the log. I also performed another backup last night, 635meg and that took over 2hrs. Then the disaster recovery took 1hr. + Executing Immediate Backup at 12/4/2007 12:42 AM To Backup Set Backup Set A... - 12/4/2007 12:42:48 AM: Copying Local Disk (C:) 12/4/2007 3:13:11 PM: Snapshot stored, 56.6 MB 12/4/2007 3:18:41 PM: Comparing Local Disk (C:) 12/5/2007 12:04:31 AM: Execution completed successfully Completed: 53042 files, 8.7 GB Performance: 12.8 MB/minute (10.2 copy, 16.9 compare) Duration: 23:21:43 (00:12:02 idle/loading/preparing) + Executing Immediate Backup at 12/5/2007 7:17 AM To Backup Set Backup Set A... - 12/5/2007 7:17:14 AM: Copying Local Disk (C:) File "C:\Documents and Settings\Patrick\Local Settings\Temp\STS2B6.tmp": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_16.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_18.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_20.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_22.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_24.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_26.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_28.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_30.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_32.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_34.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_36.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_38.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_40.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_42.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) File "C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl\CollectedData_43.xml": can't read, error -1101 (file/directory not found) 12/5/2007 8:35:27 AM: Snapshot stored, 56.7 MB 12/5/2007 8:42:07 AM: Comparing Local Disk (C:) 12/5/2007 9:55:31 AM: Execution completed successfully Completed: 183 files, 651.6 MB Performance: 8.7 MB/minute (8.5 copy, 8.9 compare) Duration: 02:38:16 (00:09:19 idle/loading/preparing) + Executing Prepare for Disaster Recovery at 12/5/2007 12:21 AM From Backup Set Backup Set A, Snapshot Local Disk (C:) 12/4/2007 12:42 AM To CD-ROM image file Restore Local Disk.iso... 12/5/2007 12:59:30 AM: Execution completed successfully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 The key is 12.8 MB/minute (10.2 copy, 16.9 compare). I suspect a communication problem with your backup device. Why don't you try a local disk and compare the speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppatterson Posted December 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Hi, I contacted tech support for my network drive. Support recommended that I download a firmware update, which I did. Run another full backup with substantially better results. However, still slower than when I performed the same backup to my laptop's HDD (XP Home SP2). In your opinon, do you feel performace to my network drive should be as fast as my HDD, faster or slower. Here are the numbers: + Executing Immediate Backup at 12/8/2007 12:32 AM To Backup Set Backup Set B... - 12/8/2007 12:32:31 AM: Copying Local Disk (C:) 12/8/2007 2:19:03 AM: Snapshot stored, 57.6 MB 12/8/2007 2:19:45 AM: Comparing Local Disk (C:) 12/8/2007 3:41:23 AM: Execution completed successfully Completed: 53316 files, 9.5 GB Performance: 105.4 MB/minute (95.1 copy, 118.3 compare) Duration: 03:08:52 (00:06:02 idle/loading/preparing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 Writing to the network is always slower then writing to a local hard disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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