What do you mean by 'half way through the backup'? 

Do you mean the tape starts getting accessed halfway through?  Something
that might impact, is the number of files.  You are backing up 500gb,
but how many files are there?

-Andrew

Zermeno, Brandon (Contractor) wrote:

>I noticed that on my file servers the incremental starts backing up all
>files about half way through the backup. I run NBU 5.1mp3a on Windows.
>The file servers are Win 2000 advanced in a cluster. The node did not
>fail over during the backup. Is it due to the fact that I am backing up
>500 gig to a SDLT 220? The backup takes between 4 and 6 hours. Would
>setting my backups to be based on the timestamp be a better solution?
>
>Thanks
>Brandon
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