Ken, thank you for your reply. I looked at those articles and they do not apply to my situation. I only have one exchange 2000 server running and it was not upgraded from 5.5. I only have one tape drive so concurrent backups does not apply. I don't know, I'm a little stumped.
A friend of mine told me to run the ESEutil on an offline defrag of Exchange, the only problem is you need 110% of free space to do it and I don't have that type of space on that drive. I would have to move the databse to a separte network drive in order to perform this. Does anyone think that might take care of it?