Vault Backup

[jparks_79]

Hello All,

I see a lot of posts about this topic, but all the solutions I find really don't fit me scenario.

We have Vault pr 2012 replicated to 6 sites. We have an incremental backup runnning Monday-Thursday and A full backup Starts every friday nite.

The problem I am encountering is the full backup starts on friday and is not finishing until Tuesday. The process always appears to get hung up on "Validating Databases". Our publisher is still running Windows 2003, so the task priority setting I don't think applies here. And we are running the recomnded SQL maintenance.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Jeremy

[paul.gunn]

Hi,

The validation does take a long time - as it involves opening every file in the filestore to compute a checksum. While this does run automatically when doing a backup from the UI, it is possible to control whether this option is taken on a command line backup. So you may want to consider moving to a command line backup in order to skip running the validation all the time .

Paul

[jparks_79]

Paul,

Thanks for the suggestion. So you think it could be possible to only do the validation step once every few backups?

After a closer inpsection of the logs, I also notice it is not only the validation step which is taking longer than a day, but the database backup is also taking quite some time(maybe over a day).

[paul.gunn · Accepted solution]

Yes -

Doing a validation is probably a good idea from time-to-time - e.g. to ensure some hard drive problem hasn't corrupted fiels. However this is a very infrequent likelihood. A large backup will take a while anyways - especially a full backup that takes all the files - so reducing overall work is important to speed things up. For multi-site you might also want to consider ignoring non-replicated files (-INRF) - having to replicate files as part of backup can also take some time, depending if there are a lot of un-replicated files.

Paul

[jparks_79]

Paul,

Thanks for the advice! We will try this next full backup with the switches and see what performance gains we get from it.

Jeremy