Backup Exec 12.5 Slow perfomance

[Stanley_P]

I have backup exec 12.5 running the backups to a disk (Folder) in a USB HDD, I am only getting 56 MBPM (Not MBPS) a simple full backup of only 60 GB is taking more than 80 hours including the verify option. Please any ideas how I can make this faster???

Thanks

[CraigV]

Hi Stanley,

USB would be a lot slower than other disks, and that includes e-SATA enclosures, local drives, SAN drives (obviously).
Speed also depends on the types of files being backed up. Lots of small files would mean inconsistent spinning on the platters of your HDD, while backing up a database/Exchange for instance would see a more consisten speed.
In this case, your bottleneck is backing up to that USB drive, and there is no way to speed that up.
If you can look at DAS, or an external drive with an e-SATA connection, that would see some improvement.

Laters!

[pkh]

To track down where are the bottlenecks, you can try your backup job, but this time, put your B2D folder on your machine's HDD, not the USB one.

[CraigV]

Hi Stanley,

Any news here?

[CraigV]

Hi,

Has any of this helped...?