Hello,
The problem of slow performance while taking backup or restore may have various other reasons as well.
If you are running the anti-virus,ensure that you stop the anti-virus services before every backup or restore operation.
Make sure that the Network connection is proper. When you are taking remote backup, and if the network is busy then backup speed lows down. you can try taking backup when there is less traffic on the network.
Backup jobs configured to use the Advanced Open File Option (AOFO) sometime can take more time when the backup job begins to build the static volume; which is later used to perform the verification. The larger the files sizes and the media that is being backed up the longer the time will be.
Also, using no compression on files, that are not compressed will have a slower throughput when using hardware or software compression. When writing to tape media, hardware compression can potentially increase throughput to twice the rate of no compression (provided that the files being backed up are not already compressed or encrypted).
You may also like to refer to the following technotes :
- How to correct slow backup performance, slow virus or pre-job scans, and agent initialization problems on fragmented Windows Nt and Windows 2000 server partitions]
URL: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/237444.htm
- Reasons why the data throughput rate can be slower than the theoretical maximum when backing up to tape media.
URL: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/231488.htm
- What Backup Exec settings can be modified to reduce the amount of time it takes for a backup to run?
URL: http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/249090.htm
To isolate the problem, you can try taking backup using native NT backup utility.
Hope this helps you in resolving the issue.
Regards,
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