atutton Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 (edited) I have a small windows network running windows professional. It has two desktops and one laptop. The main desktop runs Retrospect Professional Version 7.5.508 and the other computers have the Client Software on them. The back up is taking an incredibly long time - one hour for three GB. I didn't think this was unusual until I moved a drive from the main desktop to the client desktop and the same data would back-up in twenty minutes. The big difference is in the idle/loading/preparing time. Here's the slow version: __________________________________________________ + Normal backup using BU A - Laptop C Operating Weekly at 7/6/2008 6:21 PM To Backup Set Backup Set H... - 7/6/2008 6:21:20 PM: Copying Alistair Tutton New Laptop (C:) on Laptop 7/6/2008 7:20:06 PM: Snapshot stored, 70.9 MB 7/6/2008 7:20:33 PM: Comparing Alistair Tutton New Laptop (C:) on Laptop 7/6/2008 7:23:29 PM: Execution completed successfully Completed: 529 files, 2.9 GB Performance: 700.4 MB/minute (534.8 copy, 1020.5 compare) Duration: 01:01:55 (00:53:28 idle/loading/preparing) __________________________________________________ Here's the fast version: __________________________________________________ + Normal backup using BU A - Edit H Completed Weekly at 7/6/2008 6:00 PM To Backup Set Backup Set F... - 7/6/2008 6:00:06 PM: Copying Alistair Completed (H:) on Edit Suite 7/6/2008 6:20:00 PM: Snapshot stored, 12.9 MB 7/6/2008 6:20:02 PM: Comparing Alistair Completed (H:) on Edit Suite 7/6/2008 6:21:11 PM: Execution completed successfully Completed: 143 files, 2.3 GB Performance: 844.7 MB/minute (534.5 copy, 2042.6 compare) Duration: 00:21:04 (00:15:40 idle/loading/preparing) Edited July 7, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 One is a C drive and the other is an H drive. The C drive includes a registry, which takes a long time to copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atutton Posted July 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 One of the drives is on the slow back up is the C drive but the other drive on that back up, the F drive, isn't. Here's an example of a very slow back-up on a non C-drive: + Normal backup using Backup Edit Suite Legacy Weekly at 6/30/2008 1:07 AM To Backup Set Backup Set C... - 6/30/2008 1:07:22 AM: Copying Al Tutton Incoming Copy (I:) on Edit Suite 6/30/2008 2:34:09 AM: Snapshot stored, 33.9 MB 6/30/2008 2:34:14 AM: Comparing Al Tutton Incoming Copy (I:) on Edit Suite 6/30/2008 2:34:43 AM: Execution completed successfully Completed: 13 files, 766.5 MB Performance: 766.4 MB/minute (505.3 copy, 1642.4 compare) Duration: 01:27:21 (01:25:21 idle/loading/preparing) Any idea what idle/loading/preparing means? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blm14 Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 that second backup is a differential and it doesn't have the backup the whole registry. I think idle time is the time required to scan the files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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