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[4johnny]

We are running veritas backup exec 9.1 differential backups every night and a full backup on saturday night. Backing up to scsi tape drive and full usually takes 15hours for 120gb. Now, as of the last few days, the backups (full and incremental) are taking 3 times as long. Backups run locally on an exchange server2003 (win2003 box) and starts by backing up the mailboxes and public folders, then it backs up files on the DC server and then a File server. It currently is taking hours on the exchange public folders part of it. The public folders is only about 1GB of data but it takes many hours. Once it is done with public folders then it speeds up to normal again.

Any ideas?

 

[itsp1965]

Are you using any backup agents for Exchange. Sounds like an open file backup issue. Have you checked your logs to see if there are multiple retries for the objects you are backing up.

 

[4johnny]

There was nothing in the log about open files or retries. I found out that this particular public folder has .5gb of data and approx 3000 files and it resides on an exchange server at another site in another state. I would think this file should be backed up locally in that location so we may just excluded it from our backup routine.

Still don't know why this slow down occurred last week???