I admit I don't know anything about NTBackup but over the years I have seen enough backups to wonder if your data is of a different type. Any backup will run slower if it has to open and close a lot of small files as opposed to large files. Is it possible that the UD server as several type 19 files with many small records and the other has large files. Are you using the PE version for this test because you don't seem to have much data if you aren't?
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Haskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:29 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] UD Backups I've been testing NTBackup recently. There are some significant time delays in backuping up a UD system vs a plain Windows system. All servers run Windows 2003 Server Standard, updated several weeks ago. One server is an IIS web server using .NET while the other is a UniData server. There's not a lot of data so the time differences are pretty significant. Here's some info: ..now pausing the UniData dbms on Mon 06/25/2007 at 23:30:00.53 DBpause successful. ..now starting Windows NTBackup on Mon 06/25/2007 at 23:30:00.56 ..now resuming the UniData dbms on Mon 06/25/2007 at 23:52:02.06 DBresume successful. ..zipping (RAR) is now starting on Mon 06/25/2007 at 23:52:02.13 ..now ftp'ing files to storage server on Tue 06/26/2007 at 0:32:58.08 sftp> put *.rar -> remote /AsiAsp2/Asp2_20070625.rar OK Uploaded 160247944 bytes, 16 seconds, 9751593 bytes/second sftp> quit The non-UD server shows: ..now starting Windows NTBackup on Mon 06/25/2007 at 22:55:01.28 ..zipping (RAR) is now starting on Mon 06/25/2007 at 22:59:34.23 ..now sftp'ing backup to ASI web server on Mon 06/25/2007 at 23:37:07.40 sftp> put *.rar -> remote /netdrive/archive/Ht1_20070625.rar OK Uploaded 989484797 bytes, 118 seconds, 8360665 bytes/second sftp> quit As can be seen, the 160MB NTBackup is taking 22 minutes on the UD machine and only 4 minutes for the 990MB backup on the IIS/.NET machine. I'm guessing it has something to do with files in use. We really don't want UD shutdown for 22 minutes. When it starts growing we're going to have a real problem. Can anyone recommend a fast backup/compression product for a reasonable price? Thanks, Bill ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
