| Kerio Connect Backups Taking Forever [message #133544] |
Tue, 03 January 2017 15:54  |
thekrazykaveman
Messages: 2
Registered: January 2017
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My boss and I have a backup set to run every week on Sunday, but we're finding that it's taking 24+ hours to backup our one terabyte of data. We're backing up onto Western Digital Black Hard Drives. Has anyone else experienced this before/does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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| Re: Kerio Connect Backups Taking Forever [message #133555 is a reply to message #133544] |
Tue, 03 January 2017 22:05  |
McIrish
Messages: 256
Registered: October 2011
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We've seen the same thing. I only have 500GB of mail and it takes 36 hours for it to complete. I have it start on Saturday evening and it isn't done till around lunch on Monday. I have SSDs, so speed of the drive can't be a factor. Maybe I will need to look for some other backup strategy. I've used Robocopy a lot in the past, but was hoping to use the Kerio backup utility.
I wonder what happened to slow it down so drastically.
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| Re: Kerio Connect Backups Taking Forever [message #133561 is a reply to message #133555] |
Wed, 04 January 2017 09:19 |
gmaoret
Messages: 42
Registered: May 2008
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ISSUE: it is slow because it has to copy myriads of little files (every single e-mail is a single EML file) and so there is a big loss of time for read/write/close operations.
SOLUTION: use virtualized HDD (VHD, VHDX, VMDK or so on) for Kerio Storage and then backup the entire V-HD. This method is very fast because it has to copy a single big file.
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| Re: Kerio Connect Backups Taking Forever [message #133588 is a reply to message #133566] |
Fri, 06 January 2017 00:31 |
McIrish
Messages: 256
Registered: October 2011
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Backing up our 2TB Kerio Connect server with their backup utility was 36 hours. I switched to backing up the VM via Veeam and it backed up in only a couple hours. WOW! Great call. I will keep doing backups that way and skip the internal backup.
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