The weekend full backup finall ran … last night. We had some weird network connectivity issues every night on the Brightsor server since last Saturday so our full backups kept being interrupted. The NIC is a 1GB fibre card, a first for me. The client in question also refuses to intall the server vendor’s server management software on the machines so if you don’t have an alert light or anything in the Windows event logs you are stuffed. Yesterday, I reduced the number of streams to 8, thinking this may be a factor in the problem.
I came in this morning and found the backup had finally run, after failing the previous nights due to the network issue. Instead of the usual 36 hours, it had completed the Agent-Disk backup in 12.5 hours. The Disk-Tape copy/migration is running now and will probably take some time but the important thing is that production systems were not impacted during work hours.