Try changing (or adding if you don't have it already) the heartbeat interval 
variable. I have about 160TB I'm currently backing up total & some of the boxes 
are 8-29TB jobs. Heartbeat is must, for large jobs, as far as I'm concerned.

- Steve

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On Jul 14, 2012, at 8:19 PM, "Steve Thompson" <smt AT vgersoft DOT com> wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Joseph Spenner wrote:
> 
>> That's insane!  :)
> 
> Heh :)
> 
>> Ok, can you maybe carve it up a little?  How big is the backup?
> 
> I have already carved it up just about as much as I can. I have to back up 
> about 6 TB in 28 million files (that change very slowly) to a remote 
> offsite SD. I get at most 5 MB/sec with software compression (backups go 
> to disk on the SD), so we're looking at around 2 weeks run time for a full 
> backup (and 30 minutes for an incremental). The file system that this 6 TB 
> sits on is about 60 TB in size and is carved up into about 30 jobs 
> already.
> 
> Steve
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