gaurban Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 hey everyone - I've been running Retrospect for ever and I guess I'm just fed up with the slowness of the snapshot build and was wondering if anybody has a solution. I perform weekly incremental backups of several systems and all of the snapshots take a really long time. I noticed it mainly on one that has 120,000 files. The backup of the drive on a weekly basis takes about 30 minutes (usually less) the snapshot takes over 1 hour - I notice this on any drive with lots of files and was wondering if anybody had a way to speed up the snapshot build. Your assistance is appreciated Gerri Urban gaurban@qwest.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 14, 2003 Report Share Posted July 14, 2003 Please see: http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=26988 Retrospect 6.5 now gives you a choice to just backup folder NTFS permissions, without file. This is much faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurban Posted July 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2003 Thanks I'll give that a whirl and see how the backup goes, now if I can just get my client licenses straightened out... Thanks! Gerri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurban Posted August 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 Thanks - that fixed the backup speed - you are awesome!! Gerri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffV Posted August 5, 2003 Report Share Posted August 5, 2003 Neither the KB article you cite, nor on-line help, nor the UI tells me specifically what option to set to skip file permissions while backing up folder permissions. Do I turn off Options/More Choices/Security/Back up server|workstation security information? Security Information is pretty broad while File Permissions is pretty specific. Hate to have to guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurban Posted August 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2003 if it helps I turned off both security options and things are great - I think by default only one is turned on anyway (sorry, I can't remember which one it is) If you look in the manual it will explain the options - that's where I found the information - I'll try and check from home tonight.... Gerri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveG Posted August 12, 2003 Report Share Posted August 12, 2003 I have to agree with JeffV. I find the options for backing up server and workstation security information, with server on and workstation off by default. Nowhere do I see an option to turn off file permission and leave on folder permission in the GUI or the included manuals. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffV Posted August 12, 2003 Report Share Posted August 12, 2003 Thanks, but I like to know what I'm doing before I tell a backup program not to back something up. The manual does not mention backing up file vs. folder permissions. It just mentions the existence of the options and says essentially the same things the UI says. All in all, a pretty casual treatment of a pretty important subject. No response yet from Dantz, yet. I guess they're not sure, either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted August 12, 2003 Report Share Posted August 12, 2003 Quote: Options/More Choices/Security/Back up server|workstation security information These options affect whether or not Retrospect backs up file permissions. Folder permissions are backed up regardless. There is no option to toggle folder permissions on/off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffV Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 Good to know. Thank you. Please consider making your UI and documentation as specific as your reply. "Server security information" and "Workstation security information" sound frighteningly all-inclusive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveG Posted August 13, 2003 Report Share Posted August 13, 2003 Thanks Amy, I'll happily turn that off knowing folder permissions are still stored. Great help! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschulz Posted November 9, 2003 Report Share Posted November 9, 2003 My backup needs 6 minutes, the snapshot 20 minutes. That's on a notebook, Windows 2000 Pro. The "Security" features are both unchecked. What else is going on here? Dantz must understand that a fast backup is important for the users to accept and use it. I hate when users around here disable their backup features because of the apparently "dead" backup program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted November 10, 2003 Report Share Posted November 10, 2003 Hi The snapshot takes a copy of the registry and builds a complete image of the hard disk regardless of how many files were actually backed up. Depending on the speed of the client hard disk this can take a while. You can turn off snapshots as an option but point in time restores will no longer be possible. One way to look at this- each backup is a little slower but your restores we be much easier becuase of it Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delboy Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 Being the 'newbie' to this forum, together with the knowledge that my brain's refresh lines are slowing down as I get older I maybe off the mark here but... When I originally installed Retrospect 5.x I backed up all my files to a Retrospect 'File' backup set on a Maxtor USB 2.0 5000XT drive. Initially everything worked fine but over time I found even the smallest backup was taking forever to build the snapshots - (60-90 minutes!). I decided to switch to using Retrospect 'Disk' sets as opposed to File sets and the problem was immediately solved. I assumed that Retrospect was thrashing the Maxtor drive on the USB 2.0 interface whilst creating, deleting and inserting the snapshot into the File set? As I say, the RAM refresh is a little slow and I did not bother to test the assumption because my performance problem was fixed immediately. Dereck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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