Exchange Backup time?

[alforber183]

Hi,

Our backups are done through a 1GB direct connection between our backup server and our exchange server. All of our jobs run at at least 1GB/min through put, however the last session of the job is only running at a through put of 149MB/min.

Were using Arcserve 2000 and Exchange 5.5.

Some of the information from the activity logs below is below,

Information 07/11/2005 22:43:54 77 3 Average Throughput: 146.19 MB/min
Information 07/11/2005 22:43:54 77 3 Elapsed Time: 5h 18m 11s
Information 07/11/2005 22:43:54 77 3 46,515.81 MB Written to Media.
Information 07/11/2005 22:43:54 77 3 1,081 Database(s)/Transaction Log(s) (46,452.62 MB) Backed Up to Media.
Information 07/11/2005 17:25:37 77 3 Backup Session 3 on Media WEEKLY DATA 1 Serial # 000136
Information 07/11/2005 17:25:37 77 3 Source Directory: dbaxchg2
Information 07/11/2005 17:25:35 77 dbaxchg2 Version 11.0 Build 2670 12-12-2003 Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5
Information 07/11/2005 17:25:32 77 2 Average Throughput: 1,170.12 MB/min
Information 07/11/2005 17:25:32 77 2 Elapsed Time: 20m 14s
Information 07/11/2005 17:25:32 77 2 23,675.62 MB Written to Media.
Information 07/11/2005 17:25:32 77 2 1 Database(s)/Transaction Log(s) (23,664.04 MB) Backed Up to Media.
Information 07/11/2005 17:05:14 77 2 Backup Session 2 on Media WEEKLY DATA 1 Serial # 000136
Information 07/11/2005 17:05:14 77 2 Source Directory: \\BOURSVRMTA2\dbaexch\Information Store

Any ideas how we can get this session to run at the same speed as the others?

Cheers,

Al Forber

 

[vschumpy]

2 issues - your using as2000 base and a r11.0 exchange agent - this is not supported.

Secondly - brick level is never going to be anywhere near the same backup speed as your other backups:

http://supportconnect.ca.com/sc/redir.jsp?reqPage=search&searchID=FAQ253355

 

[alforber183]

Thanks for the help,

It is Arcserve V11 after all, my mistake. I take it that this will still stand as a reason for the slow backups?

We suspected that the reason would be due to that, so there is no way to speed that up?

Thanks again,

Al Forber