Vault backups are taking days to complete.....

New information..... Looking at the duplication jobs in the activity monitor, I see under the media server column this.......pdc00nbua801w -> pdc00nbua802w, where pdc00nbua801w is my dedicated master server (vm), and the pdc00nbua802w is the media server that wrote the original job). It would appear that the data IS running accross the network.

I went into the vault policy and checked the "alternate read server" box, and told it to use the media server pdc00nbua802w. I kicked the vault job off again and monitored it. I see now that under the media server column, it shows pdc00nbua802w->pdc00nbua802w, which is what I wanted. Now, after approx 22 minutes, it has written 70gb which works out to 53.3mb/s. MUCH better than the 16mb/s it was running before.

But, im think it should still be able to run even faster, even for LTO3. I see a "SIZE_DATA_BUFFER" touch file on that same media server that has its value set to 262144. Ive been told that if my hardware will not support that number (which I do not know how to determine), it may run at its default level which is down around 65536. It was suggested I set this number to 131072, but I'd like your imput. What are you all running this at?

Thanks!