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>From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
>[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf 
>Of Randy Samora
>Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:55 AM
>To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing Up Too Much Information
>
>I didn't think I'd ever say that but I am backing up too much data.  I
>am running NBU 6.0 MP4, Windows Master/Media/Clients.  I have a client
>with four 500GB volumes and my full backups from this weekend are
>already at 1.7TB and still climbing.  I have seen this twice before and
>it will end up backing up about twice as much data as is 
>actually on the
>client so I can only assume it's getting everything twice.  Does anyone
>know how and why this happens and do you have any suggestions on how to
>avoid it.
>
>Thanks,
>Randy
>
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The only time I've seen this happen was in the olden days.
If you had compression turned on in NBU and had hardware 
compression turned on on the tape drive, it would do strange
things that resulted in huge numbers.

Gregg

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