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hkusumo's avatar
hkusumo
Level 3
9 years ago

backup performance degrade on extrenal disk

Hi,   My client is running backup exec 2012 on SBS 2011 and backup to external USB disk, I notice after a while the backup speed is degrade considerably, on full backup which normally takes 7 h...
2012
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • hkusumo's avatar
    hkusumo
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    I think I found how to fix it after researching from the web, it seems check point restart for some reason cause the issue, I disable it last week, this week the backup seems to be ok.

     

    Regards

    - Haris -

CraigV's avatar
CraigV
Moderator
9 years ago

Run checkdsk /f to make sure there are no hardware issues, and look for fragmentation on the external HDD too.

Thanks!