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Large File Servers Backup

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Hi everyone,

I have a backup job that that includes 6 file servers that have several TB of company data. This job is setup to run incremental backup mode, and a synthetic full every Tuesday, with an active full the 3rd Tuesday of every month.

The issue we're experiencing is that synthetic full backups are taking almost 3 days to complete, and during this time no backups are run on the servers.

Other than moving some servers another backup job, is there anything else that any of you can suggest?

Thanks!
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Re: Large File Servers Backup

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Hi,
The first thing to do is to analyze your bottleneck statistics. Could you provide it?
You can also disable synthetic full backups and make active fulls only. One full in a month is usually enough.
Does it take 3 days only when you do a synthetic full? What about incremental and active full runs?
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Re: Large File Servers Backup

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Ed, what kind of target storage do you have and how it is added into Veeam B&R? Have you monitored its performance while synthetic is underway?
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Shestakov wrote:Hi,
The first thing to do is to analyze your bottleneck statistics. Could you provide it?
You can also disable synthetic full backups and make active fulls only. One full in a month is usually enough.
Does it take 3 days only when you do a synthetic full? What about incremental and active full runs?
Thanks!
It's takes 3 days, only for the synthetic full. Incremental jobs run fine.

Where can I get the bottleneck statistics for the job? That's a good idea.
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Double-click on a given job, information regarding bottleneck will be provided in the session body: Source > Proxy > Network > Target. Thanks.
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Re: Large File Servers Backup

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Thanks for the reply.
edgonz wrote:It's takes 3 days, only for the synthetic full.
And what about Active full? Looks like one of the solutions for you is to make active fulls instead of synthetic ones.
But let`s review the stats first.
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