http://www.backupassist.com/blog/support/server-2008-backup-taking-a-long-time-caused-by-usb-version-setting/ BackupAssist blog Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:14:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.backupassist.com/blog/support/server-2008-backup-taking-a-long-time-caused-by-usb-version-setting/comment-page-1/#comment-512 ANahr Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:37:00 +0000 http://www.backupassist.com/blog/?p=38#comment-512 In my case the backups were taking a long time becasue I had disabled shadow copies. I did not realize that the backup system in SBS 2008 uses the shadow copies to do its backups, so it was doing fulls instead of incrementals. The full backups were taking 12+ hours. Incrementals take ~ 30 minutes. In my case the backups were taking a long time becasue I had disabled shadow copies. I did not realize that the backup system in SBS 2008 uses the shadow copies to do its backups, so it was doing fulls instead of incrementals. The full backups were taking 12+ hours. Incrementals take ~ 30 minutes.

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