Slow Backups and Fast Restores
I have W2K3 Master/Media Server running NBU 6.5.5. I backup over the LAN with 1Gbps Ethernet. My backups are extremely slow and do not go over 5mbs. Strangely, though, my restores are fast at about ...
You can do the following for file system backups
Test the clients ability to read from its own disks with "bpbkar -nocont". It simulates a backup process but sends it to dev null. bpbkar -nocont D:\Temp > NUL 2> NUL
Please check the syntax for your specific OS. For windows you can open the job tracker to see the speed of the backup, for unix based create the log bpbkar log files and check the speed in there.
Check the network speed with FTP/Copy from the client to the master.
Check the speed of your tapes drives by backing up similar dataset located on the master server. Also check the speed you can achieve on the master's disk using bpbkar -nocont.
This will show you where the bottle neck is.
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