So it could be anything from poor drive setup/layout, slow controller, lack of ram, busy server (domain controller?).
I have seen print processes run amok and create items in the "temp" folder that filled the drive. Maybe that's where your extra space went. I haven't seen anything taking up 10 times more space than reported (are you sure you read it correctly!?) None of our clients really needs high-speed backup. We did have one client come close as they had offices all over the world so a good backup window was getting tough to find. Backup Exec does have an open files option - or is it the cost that you don't like? hth Colin Alfke Calgary, Canada -----Original Message----- From: Bill Haskett Colin: The backups seem to take about the same time with or without UD shutdown, on the development server. I just ran a backup on our UD directory and it was 1Gb, compressed to 120Mb, and took about 5 1/2 minutes to create. On one of our client's D3 server, the uncompressed file-save, of the same data, took about 40 seconds and was about 200Mb. I took a look at another one of our clients and their D3 backup was 1.1Gb of a 5-6Gb database, on Windows, and it took 6 minutes to create. In one of our beta accounts, someone created a 12Mb hold entry and somehow Windows showed there were 11.7Gb in the _HOLD_ directory when the item, created on 6/25/07, showed as 12Mb in Windows Explorer. I deleted that item and this problem disappeared (where'd that come from?). I suppose this is just one more of the multitude of problems I've got to keep my eye on! Anyway... We don't have any transaction processing. The timing starts when the NTBackup starts, after the dbpause. The timing ends when the dbresume is executed, not when it completes. I've been researching backup software and it all seems to point back to Symantec (jeeze!). I was hoping someone would have experience with a high-speed backup product that would backup open files for U2. Since our application has a module that uses ASP.NET we really don't want to shut down the dbms for very long (this is more important than backuping up open files and not having a "pristine" backup). Thanks, Bill ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
