ramon82 Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 NTBACKUP problem - taking ages!Hi all. I have a problem with NTBACKUP. I have so much data that the BKF file is around 111GB!! obviously I am not using a tape drive to backup all this data but another hard drive. NTBACKUP compiles all data to a BKF file from the host drive on to another hard drive. Problem is not that however. Its taking ages to perform this task and during this time the server is on its knees!! No wonder why considering the huge amount and the backup being NORMAL and not INCREMENTAL or DIFFERENTIAL. Policies say that backup should be NORMAL/FULL. Is there a way or another software which would allow a better compression or does the job quicker? I want the backup to be performed from HARD DRIVE-to-HARD DRIVE and therefore there is no use of LTO tapes or any other backup media.Awaiting your opinion :)Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 I highly recommend Acronis True Image (Home Edition if it's for one machine only). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 I tried Windows backup (NTBackup) once and found it very disappointing.I use Acronis True Image now - as do many other forum members.http://www.acronis.co.uk/Note the link is to the UK site. If you are elsewhere, check your location on the site or on Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramon82 Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 But will this allow me to restore data no matter what the NTFS permissions? also will it backup SYSTEM STATE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 It will backup either a full drive as an image, or selected folders/files that you specify. If you do an image of your drive, everything is backed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramon82 Posted October 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 I decided to perform a backup to another HDD using NTBackup but now I am encountering these errors:Event Type: WarningEvent Source: FtdiskEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 50Date: 30-10-2008Time: 7:18:31 AMUser: N/AComputer: SERVER-ADescription:{Lost Delayed-Write Data} The system was attempting to transfer file data from buffers to \Device\HarddiskVolume3. The write operation failed, and only some of the data may have been written to the file. Data:0000: 00 00 04 00 01 00 5e 00 ......^.0008: 00 00 00 00 32 00 04 80 ....2..?0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........0028: 9a 00 00 c0 ?.. On top of that what puzzled me more is that the drive had a capacity of 250GB and now its only showing half !! ie: 128MB and its saying unreadable drive. I performed a test on the drive using IBM Hitachi drive test (DFT) and it did not return a fail.Can anyone suggest a solution to this?Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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