Hello
We have a backup location where we restore our Live Servers for hot standby.
We used Vranger before and now with backup exec the restore process for some VM takes up a huge amount of time... I have uploaded the logs for the worst case.
The full backup took 24 minutes 12 seconds and 52.9 GB of data backup up.
The first incremental backup took 7 minutes 22 seconds with 13.2 GB data.
The second incremental backup took 25 minutes 51 seconds (!!!) with 80 GB data (!!!!). How is this possible? An incremental backup which uses up more space than a full backup and takes longer?
The third incremental backup took 3 minutes 26 seconds with 4 GB data.
The restore from the third incremental took 2 hours and 58 minutes and it shows 150 GB of data restored which is even larger than the hard disk of the VM. How is this possible?
Backups were taken every week.
All the servers which take that long to restore have such a strange incremental backup in them where the data backuped shown is equal to the size of the disk.
I find it strange that incremental backups do take up sooooo much space for most servers. Our citrix servers where the full backup takes up between 70 and 90 GB shown the incrementals show between 10 and 90 GB...