B2D Backups on Backup Exec 2010 R3 Running Slow

Hi Jeremy,

Have you started with a restart of the media server?

Thanks!

CraigV

We had a power outage a couple of days ago.  The systems were properly shutdown (including the media server).  They are still running slow though.  Do you think that a proper reboot would help?  Thanks in advance. 

Might not be a bad idea!

Okay.  I will schedule that and give it a try.  I will post back here if that fixes that issue or not. 

Okay was able to do the full reboot.  Nothing changed.  We are still running at 104mb per minute.  The only differance between the two setups is we have HIPS running in logging mode on the setup that is running slow.  It is not blocking anything but just scannning, do you think that might be slowing it down?

OK...so where are you backing up too? If to disk, check the fragmentation level on the drive and see if it needs a defrag.

Okay so after another reboot of both the Media Server and the Exchange server, I am still experiancing slow backukps.  I started a job and it starts out okay, runs up to 700mb (not great but way better) then it starts to slowly come down.  One other thing that I am noticing as I have been watching the job, once it hits 100% complete (which is still not even 10% of the data), Backup Exec goes into a reclaim space operation on the GRT folder and it looks like that is dragging down the speed even more.  What is the reclaim space operation?  I have over 1tb free on the backup drive that this job is running on.  Can I pause that operation or have it run on its own when no backup jobs are running?

You might want to check the TN below:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH130103

There are 2 operations daily (you can't schedule them), so see when your backup is running and how long it takes. Might be worthwhile starting it a bit earlier to see if you can finish it sooner, or at least get through most of it.

Thanks!

Craig

it is a disk.  i can check the fragmentation.  It had 16% fragmentation.  I am runnig a defrag now. 

Craig Thanks for the article.  I am letting the defrag run now.  I will reschedule the job to run a little earlier as well and see if that helps.  Thanks.