RE: ontape and large delays reaching first 10% complete
This could well be valid. THe percentages are calculated from the allocated
size of the database, not the amount of data in the database. Only used
pages are backed up.
What problem do you have?
MW
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> Subject: ontape and large delays reaching first 10% complete
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>
> All:
>
> I'm helping someone troubleshoot backup problems, and they
> just reported
> something we both think is very odd: the ontape process takes over two
> hours to reach the first 10% completion point, but after that
> it's about
> twenty minutes per 10% step.
>
> What would cause the first ten percent of the backup to take so much
> longer than the rest?
>
> Thanks.
>
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