Backups taking over 100 hours

[joepc]

I have a problem with Backup exec. 8.6. My backups seem to run forever when trying to backup the second partition on my server. I weird part about it is that it will run fine for about 10 days, then all of a sudden it will take about 100 hours to complete. If you look at the logs it says backing up E at 10:00 pm 9-1-04 then right below it will state backed E: at 9:30 am 9-6-04. ???? Anyone ever experiense this problem before?

I replaced all the tapes and the drive has been cleaned.

 

[stevet3]

Check your alerts tab in backup exec or application log on the server...are you being prompted for media or anything?

 

[joepc]

No, nothing. No alerts or anything. The backup job will complete successfully.

 

[Jump1ng]

Not sure if its the same with BE 8.6 but with 9.1 I had problems with speed and upgrading to the latest version solved that problem.

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[lambypie]

Have you checked the nic speed on all nic's that you are using and make sure they are all the smae i.e. 100 Full duplex and going through a switch that is configured with 100 Full duplex ports.