ekeller Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 My question is not necessarily about Retrospect but on some backup strategies. We are presently using Retrospect 7.5 with all of the latest updates/fixes. We are using Microsoft Server 2003 Standard on a computer with 2 GB RAM and 3 1-TB hard drives. Our backup strategy is to perform normal backups with many file exclusions on a daily basis. Now for the problem. We want to move our backup sets from our backup server to external hard drives for off-site storage. Our external hard drives are Lacie 1 TB drives. USB transfer is too slow to make this transfer effective so we are moving up to Firewire 800 ports. The USB transfer of approximately .8+ TB takes almost 20 hours and degrades backup server operation. Does anyone have any possible suggestions on faster transfers from server to external hard drives? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grchap Posted December 4, 2008 Report Share Posted December 4, 2008 Did you get this sorted out? I'm thinking about the same strategy, but by using eSata, I hoping to get 3-6x better performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin415 Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 Old thread but wth, my 2 cents. I've had bad luck with both eSata and USB and use decent SAS RAID cards that support multipliers for cost efficiency. We can assign drives as "pass-through" and make sure Windows knows they may be removed, disabling some caching for more reliability. We still use SATA drives in the SAS enclosures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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