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jweiss
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 Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: Helping configuring a job |
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I have two NAS devices on our network. One backs up a server drive, the other is a secondary backup of the backup.
Right now I have one job set to mirror the server drive, which seems to work fine.
However, my 2nd job is supposed to compare itself to the backup NAS and create another mirror as a fall back. I'm looking for this job to simply update files that have changed on the backup. Apparently I'm doing something wrong because the job takes like 20 hours to run on 30gigs of data.
Any advice?
The 2nd profile is set to:
Profile File: C:\Documents and Settings\Howard\My Documents\ViceVersa PRO 2\LS Pro Mirro to LS Live.fsf
Folders
- Source: "S:\"
- Target: "L:\"
- Include Subfolders: Yes
Comparison
- Comparison Type: Size and Timestamp
Execution
- Method: Replication (Update Target)
- No overwrite / read-only / error confirmations
- Log File: "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ViceVersa PRO 2\log1.log"
- No archive for deleted/replaced source files
- No archive for deleted/replaced target files
- Copy files even if timestamp changes after initial comparison
- Try to copy files that are in use by other applications |
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TGRMN Software
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
Are S:\ and L:\ the 2 NAS drives?
Try using UNC paths instead of mapped drives, does it improve performances?
thanks
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jweiss
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| Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| TGRMN Software wrote: | Hi,
Are S:\ and L:\ the 2 NAS drives?
Try using UNC paths instead of mapped drives, does it improve performances?
thanks |
It turns out that it was creating numerous copies of each file, so the size was larger by 10 fold. I couldn't figure out how I did that, so I deleted the profiles and started over. I was using the VVEngine software and VVLauncher, but it seemed easier to use the scheduler. Once I switched back to using the scheduler my problems seemed to be resolved.
I'm still not clear on which type of backup I should be doing. Backup (Mirror) makes the drives look exactly alike, correct? So that would erase anything on the target drive that was different?
So if there were folders on the target I wanted to keep I would use Replication (Update Target)? Or is there a way to keep a specific folder on the target safe? |
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TGRMN Software
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I'm still not clear on which type of backup I should be doing. Backup (Mirror) makes the drives look exactly alike, correct? So that would erase anything on the target drive that was different? |
Yes, correct.
| Quote: | | So if there were folders on the target I wanted to keep I would use Replication (Update Target)? Or is there a way to keep a specific folder on the target safe? |
Yes, replication does not delete files in target that are not in source.
Or you could exclude a folder in the target and still use backup. In that case the excluded folder is not deleted from target.
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