BE 2010 Performance Degrade

[darkstarjk]

We are in the process of upgrading from our old Backup Exec 12.5 to 2010. Inside of this process have been some major hardware changes.

We currently run the following:
HP DL380 G4 - Single 3Ghz Processor with 2GB of RAM
Quantum Scalar 24 LTO 4 auto loader library


We are upgrading to the following:
HP DL380 G7 - Dual Processor 2.67Ghz with 12GB of RAM
Quantum Scalar i40 - Dual LTO5 Drives

We had a server configured with a remote agent (Proliant DL360 G3) and were getting speeds of approximately 160MB/min. At one point this server would back up at approximately 800MB/min (I believe this was around the Backup Exec v10 days). As a result, we figured we would upgrade a server on the shelf (Proliant DL360 G4p) and move to the latest version of Windows 2008 R2. This is completely new hardware as far as the server is concerned, so the only thing that has not changed at this point is the data. After setting up the server, prepping, then copying over the current data we attempted a test backup. To our surprise, the backup is STILL running at 160MB/min. We have tested other servers which range between 2.5GB/min and 4.5GB/min respectively.

I’ve tried everything I could research (started Monday) and just cannot find a solution.

-Defragmenting, no change
-Changing flow control and checksum offload
-Verified the latest patches were installed
-Verified that the tape backup was writing at the proper speeds.
-Hard wired the network wiring directly to the switch attached to the server in question.

I decided to attempt a B2D session to see if that would resolve my issues but it still writes at the exact same speed (160MB/min).

What am I missing? Any help would be appreciated and thank you in advance.

 

[hallja]

I am having same issues with no help from support. I have spent countless hours trying to get a backup that passes verify let alone speeds that will exceed 200MB/min. So far I have had less tech support than I have had luck. I was using 11d and backing up to disk which 11d wasn't even designed to do but was having success just had to jump through a couple of hoops to get it to work. Now that I've upgraded to 2010, nothing is working. I'm very close to abandon the whole thing and look for a solution that really works.