Backup Exec Backup Job rate

[tomking]

Hi,

Recently our Backup Exec 12.5 backup job rates dropped from 150MB to 70MB for a certain group of machines. The logs indicate only servers going through a particular firewall are affected. Obviously next step will be to work out what is the change made on the firewall causes the issue.

My question here is, is there a way to test backup job rate apart from running a backup job... For exmaple, is there a BE tool that I can use to test?

In general, what will be the things to look out when troubleshoot BE Backup job rates.

Any feedback will be appreciated.

Cheers,

[pkh]

No.  There is no tools to test the job rate because there are a lot of factors that will can affect it.  Of the top of my head, look out for the following

1) workload on the media server and/or the remote server. 

2) number of files to be backed up.  It is a lot slower to back up 1000 small files than a couple of big files.

3) disk fragmentation of both the source and the destination if you are backing up to a B2D folder.

4) is the NIC configured for full duplex.

5) congestion on the network.

[Symanticus]

Hm.. intresting, could that be because of the hard drive in the media server needs to be defragmented ?