We run a backup every night in our company using Arcserve 2000. For some reason, its slowing down our network tremendously. Before, we had a 10 hour window to run a Full backup… we had the time so we did fulls ...Now our window has decreased and we have about 6-8 hours to run a full back u…Not enough time anymore. The window has shrunk because users from our remote offices around the world are accessing data on our internal LAN. Is there any way around this issue? Should Arcserve be slowing down our network to the point were users in other locations on our network are timing out when accessing applications. The reason I ask is that as soon as the backup starts remote offices start complaining that they can’t access data on the corporate LAN(they are getting timed out). For example, the first server to get backed up is the Arcserve server, the backup device is hooked up directly to via a scsi cable. Even, when it is backing up itself it slowing the LAN down. I don’t see why this happens because on this first server(Arcserve Server) it is going from server to backup device. It has not even started backing up data through the LAN yet. I would say we are backing up100GB of data including. Mostly documents and our exchange info. store. Thanks, I appreciate all replies.