I bet you've got a lot of little files on at least one of the drives. The three hours is used comparing all those little darlings with the TSM server's idea of things, before anything gets backed up at all. - Margaret Clark
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 11:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] long time for client backup Client backup starts 8:30PM, It takes 3 hours to get to first processed message ANS1898I ***** Processed 500 files ***** I restarted the server, no difference, It happens to be a Windows 2003 cluster. Any idea why it takes so long. 09/08/2010 20:33:09 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN NT_WKD_OFFCL 09/08/2010 20:30:00 09/08/2010 20:33:11 Incremental backup of volume '\\office\d$' 09/08/2010 20:33:11 Incremental backup of volume '\\office\q$' 09/08/2010 20:33:11 Incremental backup of volume '\\office\e$' 09/09/2010 00:32:24 ANS1898I ***** Processed 500 files ***** 09/09/2010 00:32:25 ANS1898I ***** Processed 1,000 files ***** Tim Brown Systems Specialist - Project Leader Central Hudson Gas & Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: tbr...@cenhud.com <<mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com>> Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255