Windows Server 2008 R2 AD question

[cwilloug]

We have several new Win Server 2008 R2 Active Directory boxes that are backing up 6 to 8 GB a night - the machines have 61,182 files and 10.7 GB of data on them.

Is it "normal" for an AD machine to back up this much data a night?

Client is 6.1.2, Server is 5.5


Thanks.......


11/24/2009 00:03:54 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Total number of objects inspected: 59,686
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Total number of objects backed up: 55,097
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Total number of objects updated: 0
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Total number of objects rebound: 0
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Total number of objects deleted: 0
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Total number of objects expired: 2
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Total number of objects failed: 6
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Total number of subfile objects: 0
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Total number of bytes transferred: 6.96 GB
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Data transfer time: 282.19 sec
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Network data transfer rate: 25,885.73 KB/sec
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Aggregate data transfer rate: 2,843.20 KB/sec
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Objects compressed by: 0%
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Subfile objects reduced by: 0%
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Elapsed processing time: 00:42:49
11/24/2009 00:03:54 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END
11/24/2009 00:03:54 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END 11_PM_SCHEDULE 11/23/2009 23:00:00
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Scheduled event '11_PM_SCHEDULE' completed successfully.
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Sending results for scheduled event '11_PM_SCHEDULE'.
11/24/2009 00:03:54 Results sent to server for scheduled event '11_PM_SCHEDULE'.

11/24/2009 00:03:54 ANS1483I Schedule log pruning started.
11/24/2009 00:03:54 ANS1484I Schedule log pruning finished successfully.
11/24/2009 00:03:54 TSM Backup-Archive Client Version 6, Release 1, Level 2.0

 

[THE_WIPET]

Look like yes...

This is my Win2k8 R2 AD server

11/26/2009 02:55:25 Total number of objects inspected: 66,426
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Total number of objects backed up: 57,952
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Total number of objects updated: 0
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Total number of objects rebound: 0
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Total number of objects deleted: 0
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Total number of objects expired: 9
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Total number of objects failed: 9
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Total number of subfile objects: 0
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Total number of bytes transferred: 7.27 GB
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Data transfer time: 1,141.33 sec
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Network data transfer rate: 6,687.44 KB/sec
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Aggregate data transfer rate: 2,492.84 KB/sec
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Objects compressed by: 0%
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Subfile objects reduced by: 0%
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Elapsed processing time: 00:51:01
11/26/2009 02:55:25 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END
11/26/2009 02:55:25 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END 0200-DAILY 11/26/2009 02:01:00
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Scheduled event '0200-DAILY' completed successfully.
11/26/2009 02:55:25 Sending results for scheduled event '0200-DAILY'.

 

[rore]

Hi,
Active directory is backed up as a part of systemstate. There is no incremental backup of systemstate, it is always full backup.
6G to 8G is not surprising for a win2k8 systemstate including the AD database.

Rudy