lafleur1977 Posted June 3, 2011 Report Posted June 3, 2011 Hello, Inherited a network and am trying to make some minor improvements in the short term... I am having a problem with backupexec 12.5 and the length of time backups are currently taking (around 24 hours for backup2disk differential and full backups). I am told they were much quicker when the software was configured initially however there is now more data - around 2 TB of files, system states of 10 servers and exchange/SQL backups. I am reading the administrators manual currently when I get chance and a couple of things I have noticed are: Regular de-fragmentation: No server maintenance at all was being carried out and I have now implemented this which has helped a little bit. Priority: would setting this higher improve speed? I would assume it would require more of the servers resources. Thanks for any help and suggestions.
irsprint84 Posted June 3, 2011 Report Posted June 3, 2011 I had so much pain with backup exec I just gave up and moved to DPM, different technology
lafleur1977 Posted June 3, 2011 Author Report Posted June 3, 2011 Is that part of microsoft system centre? How does it work?
irsprint84 Posted June 3, 2011 Report Posted June 3, 2011 Volume licence was about £12 a server I think. Simply it works with VSS it does syncs throughout the day so full backups are a few minutes and can be done throughout the day plus I pay £12 a server so if it has sharepoint, SQL, random thing I dont have to buy a £500 sharepoint agent plus I dont have to buy upgrade licences if for example I move form Exchange 2007 to 2010. I have mine setup with 5 disks (not raided) and it puts the disks into a pool then spreads the data throughout the Pool
lafleur1977 Posted June 3, 2011 Author Report Posted June 3, 2011 Wow that sounds really good. Whats the recovery process like? Does it do anything along the lines of a OS backup/image? Will certainly have a look into it but I think I will be stuck with backupexec for a while yet.
irsprint84 Posted June 3, 2011 Report Posted June 3, 2011 Well are you on volume licencing? well if you use vss very similar restore procedure, I have full backups 3 times a day and system doesnt even flinch and takes a few minutes. Only downside it doesnt do Linux but does vmware and hyper V
lafleur1977 Posted June 3, 2011 Author Report Posted June 3, 2011 We have a microsoft select agreement currently. We have shadow copies enabled on the file servers which work great. Will have a look at it anyways, thanks for telling me about it.
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