Back up 3 hrs, test time 8 hrs?!?!?

[MLafferty]

A full backup takes 3 hours. The test of that backup takes 8 hrs. Something is amiss. I read the forums and have done all the recommended fixes: all Fbackup .exe's and the network destination drive are excluded in the virus scanner (MS Security Essentials), the minimum set of source files to back-up are selected (no windows or system files), etc.
We're running Win 7 64 bit, FBackup 4.6.253, network backup to a Seagate Central Axis via wired network.
Any more suggestions?

[Adrian (Softland)]

Hi,
What is the read speed from the destination device?

If you manually copy a large file to destination and then you copy it back, is the copy time the same for both cases?

[MLafferty]

The write spped of a 751Mb file was averaging about 10.5 Mb/s, 1m 15 s total time. The read for same file copyed back to PC was averaging 11.5 Mb/s, 1m 05s total time.

[Adrian (Softland)]

Hi,
Is the time difference the same for the next backup updates?

[MLafferty]

The timing was the same on the next backup too. Would like a log file?

[MLafferty]

P.S. We also have esentially an identical backup set-up on a Vista machine on the same network and back-up server. The backup takes about 3 hours and the test less than one.

[Adrian (Softland)]

Hi,
As the backup jobs are configured the same way (as you told us), is there any difference how these two computers access the destination drive?

Is one computer behind a router?

[MLafferty]

There is one switch that the two computers and the backup server are connected to. Both computers have the destination called out the same way, e.g \\Mca-05abb7\jiloa\My Backup\Charmed2010\Weekly Backup\. Each has it's own file directory. The weekly full backup ran again yesterday with the same results. About three hours for the backup and about 8 for testing. The daily mirror backup takes about 30 minutes and testing takes about 30 minutes. Could there be something to do with the compression of the weekly?

[Adrian (Softland)]

Hi,
You cannot compare a Full backup (which is zip compressed and include all files) and a Mirror (which is not zipped and include only new and modified files).

[MLafferty]

O.K. But why does the full backup on the Vista 32 machine test so quickly while the full backup on the Win 7 64 machine test so slowly? What else can we try to solve this long test issue?