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VV2 Backup job copying data for no reason! HELP!

 
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sxanrr



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:03 am    Post subject: VV2 Backup job copying data for no reason! HELP! Reply with quote

Hey everyone,

Thanks in advance for any assistance with my question...


I have been using VV2 now for about 4 months and it seems to work pretty well for my purposes, however, I think I'm missing something somewhere because Vice Versa *ALWAYS* finds new stuff to copy over after every backup run.

For example, I JUST ran a backup job using Vice Versa 2 to copy over all changes to any files / folders, etc... from one server to another in the specified directories. The job finishes successfully with no errors, and I immediately start a new backup with the same profile. Somehow, Vice Versa 2 comes up with a ton of things to copy over (in this case, it's copying over 84GB of files that have been "changed" yet it's 11pm on a saturday night and I know none of my users are currently on or working. How can I get Vice Versa to properly find the files that actually do need updating on the backup server side and ONLY copy those files? I have to be missing a setting somewhere I think because this makes zero sense.

The main reason why this is an issue for me, is not from the LAN side of server to server backing up, but my disaster recovery server gets the data via Vice Versa also, and you can imagine what it's like trying to copy 84GB or larger over a WAN link @ 3mb/s every night.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello

if you open the profile (.fsf) you are using in ViceVersa and then click on Compare, ViceVersa will show you which files are not matching and newer in source. In the comparison window ViceVersa will also show file timestamps, try checking why they are different immediately after a backup,

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sxanrr



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought it might be something to do with the time stamps so I've been continuously messing with the settings. I just set it now to ignore timestamps completely and I want to see what it does. Not sure why there would be any issue with those though, it's just not clear in the program what each setting does *exactly*. I'm going to try and I'll let you know how it works out. I'm running the profile with the new settings now!

Thanks again!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, thanks
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