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    I've setup a Windows Home Sever 2011 system and so far all is well with one exception - my backups are EXTREMLY slow. I setup one Windows 7 system to backup to my home server and noticed that the backup was extraordinarily slow. I had roughly 150GB to backup on this system and it took somewhere around 24 hours complete. Now, I'm doing a server backup (backing up the home server itself) to an external HD and it's moving along at the glacial pace of approximatly 200MB per minute.

    The Windows system is being backed up accross a Gigabit Ethernet connection. The Windows Home Server backup is being performed to a USB HD. It's actually a USB 3 drive but connected via USB 2 (the machine w/Home Server only has USB 2).

    Note that outside of the backups the performance is fine. For example, copying files directly from the same Windows 7 box that I'm backing up to the WHS box proceeds at 70MB/Sec+

    Note in both cases (from Win7 to WHS and WHS backup) it's a first time backup so it should be a full backuo at this point with no need to caqlculate what blocks to copy for an incremental or differential backup.

    Anyone know if there are any tunable settings that might speed this process up?

    - Hannes

     

    • Moved by kariya21Moderator Saturday, April 30, 2011 7:54 PM not a WHS v1 question (From:Windows Home Server Software)
    Monday, April 25, 2011 11:58 PM

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    I've setup a Windows Home Sever 2011 system and so far all is well with one exception - my backups are EXTREMLY slow. I setup one Windows 7 system to backup to my home server and noticed that the backup was extraordinarily slow. I had roughly 150GB to backup on this system and it took somewhere around 24 hours complete. Now, I'm doing a server backup (backing up the home server itself) to an external HD and it's moving along at the glacial pace of approximatly 200MB per minute.

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    If this is the first backup you've done, it will be extremely slow because it has to back up the whole hard drive(s) in your client machine, etc. Once the complete backup is done, the next time it does an incremental backup, and things will be a whole lot faster.

    If this isn't your first backup, forget what I said. :)

    Nancy Ward
    • Marked as answer by Hannes S Sunday, May 1, 2011 3:03 PM
    Saturday, April 30, 2011 8:54 PM

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    I've setup a Windows Home Sever 2011 system and so far all is well with one exception - my backups are EXTREMLY slow. I setup one Windows 7 system to backup to my home server and noticed that the backup was extraordinarily slow. I had roughly 150GB to backup on this system and it took somewhere around 24 hours complete. Now, I'm doing a server backup (backing up the home server itself) to an external HD and it's moving along at the glacial pace of approximatly 200MB per minute.

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    If this is the first backup you've done, it will be extremely slow because it has to back up the whole hard drive(s) in your client machine, etc. Once the complete backup is done, the next time it does an incremental backup, and things will be a whole lot faster.

    If this isn't your first backup, forget what I said. :)

    Nancy Ward
    • Marked as answer by Hannes S Sunday, May 1, 2011 3:03 PM
    Saturday, April 30, 2011 8:54 PM
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    I see the samme issue here. Freshly installed WHS 2011. General performance is fine. Copying data to shared folders is about 80MB/sec. Initial backup of a Win7 client is at 35% after like 4 hours. Total data to backup about 85 GB.

     

    CPU is under 10% both on the WHS and Win7 client. Network shows 1 MByte/sec at max ...

     

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     Olaf

    Saturday, April 30, 2011 9:34 PM
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    As stated by Nancy; first time backup takes ages, eons...just wait and see.

     

     

    WHS 2011 RTM coming alive, taking over WHS v.1 duties.
    Sunday, May 1, 2011 5:55 AM
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    Thanks for all your responses. I guess we'll just call this "expected behavior" then.

     

    - Hannes

    Sunday, May 1, 2011 3:04 PM