NTBackup systemstate 20 hrs??!!?!

[weezy6902]

Hey guys I am stumped again. Just cant figure why this backup is taking so long. I configured ntbackup to run nightly using a script and works flawlessly but on this occasion every night lately the systemstate part of the backup takes 20 hours and then the backup tape get full and asks for another. by that time the next backup scheduled to run gets cut off because its to the 24hour mark.

On other servers backups run about 6 hours. We are backing up c:\ e:\ and systemstate on this server. Its usually about 40gb of data on a quantum dlt 8000 drive.

I have seen systemstate backups usually run very quickly. Not 20 friggin hours!!

Any ideas? I have tried rebooting re seating cables replacing the cables resetting the tape drive sawpping the tape drive. looks like its on the server side but where i dont know... Heres a copy of the record in the log...

Thanks for any assistance,

Ben


Backup started on 3/8/2006 at 12:57 AM.
Backup completed on 3/8/2006 at 8:06 PM.
Directories: 12420
Files: 140877
Bytes: 24,560,158,989
Time: 20 hours, 9 minutes, and 6 seconds
Backup (via shadow copy) of "System State"
Backup set #3 on media #1
Backup description: "DailyBackup Tue-03-07-2006-10-03"
Media name: "DailyBackup Tue-03-07-2006-10-03

 

[porkchopexpress]

lol Our systemstate takes about 10 mins at the most.

Do you get the same result when you run a manual backup of the system state?

Try backing up to a file rather than the tape drive and see if it takes as long.

 

[mrdenny]

Sounds like some log which is included in a system state backup has gotten out of control.

Denny
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[u080570]

Do you by any chance have any other Shadow Copy processes running at the same time - I had some issues when my backups (using Shadow Copy) and my shadow copies of shares overlapped....

 

[mrdenny]

Backup started on 3/8/2006 at 12:57 AM.
Backup completed on 3/8/2006 at 8:06 PM.
Directories: 12420
Files: 140877
[red]Bytes: 24,560,158,989[/red]
Time: 20 hours, 9 minutes, and 6 seconds
Backup (via shadow copy) of "System State"
Backup set #3 on media #1
Backup description: "DailyBackup Tue-03-07-2006-10-03"
Media name: "DailyBackup Tue-03-07-2006-10-03"

There's a lot of data being backed up here. 22.87 Gigs to be exact.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000) / MCTS (SQL 2005)

--Anything is possible. All it takes is a little research. (Me)

http://www.mrdenny.com

 

[porkchopexpress]

Yep that's very true. Any chance somehow a massive file has ended up in your netlogon folder or in sysvol.?

Otherwise as Denny says it could be a log thats got out of control.

 

[weezy6902]

I'll check the netlogon folder, thanks for the replies guys I appreciate it!!

 

[weezy6902]

the c:\ is only 18gb drive. How could the systemstate backup be that large? wth?

I am not finding any runaway log files or anything either. the sysvol is 57mb...

Any ideas on exactly how this could be happening?

Thnx,

Ben

 

[porkchopexpress]

Did you try running a manual backup as a test?

 

[weezy6902]

yeah it's not happening now. I'm thinking some kind of process was going on a tthe same time. cant nail any facts down though as of yet...