backups taking abnormally long time

Hello,

- Are you backing up to a tape or a disk?
- Are these local backups?
- Is there high network activity during backup window?
- Is it taking longer during Exchange mailbox backups?
- Is Antivirus running on the server which is being backed up?


Please refer the following technotes.
Title:
How to correct slow backup performance, slow virus or pre-job scans, and agent initialization problems on fragmented Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003 server partitions
http://support.veritas.com/docs/237444

Title:
What Backup Exec settings can be modified to reduce the amount of time it takes for a backup to run?
http://support.veritas.com/docs/249090

Title:
Reasons why the data throughput rate can be slower than the theoretical maximum when backing up to tape media
http://support.veritas.com/docs/231488

Title:
Slow throughput while backing up Microsoft Exchange mailboxes
http://support.veritas.com/docs/264851


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Hi,

Tape,

Local

No, none everyone is home

A bit

Yes, Symantec

Thanks for the technotes. I'll have a look.l

Hello,

will you please update us on the issue?

Regards,
Ashutosh

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Hello,

Please update us on the status of the issue.

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Thanks.