System specs:
Dell Poweredge 830 - 2GB Ram - P4 - 805 3.0 GHz DC - Dell Cerc Raid Controller
4 Drive Raid 5 Array
The problem I am seeing is during backup to the Travan 40 using SBS NTBackup ( I know someone is going to shoot me here for saying the Travan word) but it was the only tape drive within the customers budget at the time. I am backing up 2.7gb to tape in roughly 33 mins and for some reason it is taking 5.4 hours to verify the same data. The backup eventually completes although 5-6 hours later than started. I have detailed backup logging enabled but that is not providing any information as to the cause of the delay. I have done some research and found that the Travan's are not highly regarded as a reliable backup device but I think if Dell is selling it then it should work. They are not backing up enterprise amounts of data by any means and 3gb is well under the tapes native capacity of 20gb.
Does NTBackup have a more detailed Debug mode that can be enabled? I am also not seeing any errors in regards to Shadow Copy or File locking contention issues and there are no other file based activites running at the time of the backup (AV scans, Defrag etc.) Exchange maintenance is at default time. I am a little stumped here.. where to look next. I don't want to disable verify like some have suggested, as I don't think that is safe. I would much rather know that I can read the tape after backup or during my test restores..
Any suggestions welcome..
Thanks!
Dell Poweredge 830 - 2GB Ram - P4 - 805 3.0 GHz DC - Dell Cerc Raid Controller
4 Drive Raid 5 Array
The problem I am seeing is during backup to the Travan 40 using SBS NTBackup ( I know someone is going to shoot me here for saying the Travan word) but it was the only tape drive within the customers budget at the time. I am backing up 2.7gb to tape in roughly 33 mins and for some reason it is taking 5.4 hours to verify the same data. The backup eventually completes although 5-6 hours later than started. I have detailed backup logging enabled but that is not providing any information as to the cause of the delay. I have done some research and found that the Travan's are not highly regarded as a reliable backup device but I think if Dell is selling it then it should work. They are not backing up enterprise amounts of data by any means and 3gb is well under the tapes native capacity of 20gb.
Does NTBackup have a more detailed Debug mode that can be enabled? I am also not seeing any errors in regards to Shadow Copy or File locking contention issues and there are no other file based activites running at the time of the backup (AV scans, Defrag etc.) Exchange maintenance is at default time. I am a little stumped here.. where to look next. I don't want to disable verify like some have suggested, as I don't think that is safe. I would much rather know that I can read the tape after backup or during my test restores..
Any suggestions welcome..
Thanks!