Backup Exec 7.3 with Exchange option takes too long to backup

[rondelacruz]

My problem is that an incremental backup takes 12 hours to finish. I have Backup Exec 7.3 with Exchange option and I backup all the mailboxes of the users. I have a few users, Only 8Gb of data is being backup up.. Why does it take this long???? Is there a fix to increase the backup rate???

Thank you very much...

 

[steveot]

For one that is way out of date Backup Exec version..but anyway. If you file system backups are running faster then YES the mailbox backup is usually slower. It using a mapi login to get into the mailboxes and open every item one at a time. So imagine someone at a outlook client opening every email and attachment.
If your file system backups are running slow then start looking at a way to tune the hardware and drivers