Archive taking too long

[angelshark]

Hello,

What’s the difference between doing an Archive and doing a Backup? When I do an Archive it takes me much longer than doing a Backup.

Anyone knows the reason for this?

Thanks in advance.

 

[rkrishnan]

On the face of it, archive is also backup with the below mentioned major differences:

1. Archive volumes have longer life-cycle and would not obey a normal retention policy
2. You can optionally groom the files after archive to create more disk space (which usually is why archiving is done) which you can't do with backups.

 

[605]

Did you use verification? - as archiving is a move process instead of a copy process, NW will verify the data before it deletes it from disk. This of course will take longer.

 

[angelshark]

No, I did not use verification or groom.

Strangely, when you start Archiving from the client it saves the files very slowly but when you start it from the server it works at normal speed.

Thanks for your tips.