Backups are extremely slow suddenly

[David1]

Hello everyone,

Last week, all of a sudden my backups went from a rate of 862MB/min to 150MB/min and are now running around 150MB/min.. They had been running at 800MB+ for quite some time now.

Im running BackupExec 11d Rev7170 with Hotfixes 1,3,4, and 5 on Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2

Any help please?

Thank you and Regards,

David

[Camel]

Have you checked the servers (backup server and target server) for rouge processes hogging all your processor / memory etc? Maybe you have a virus or something?

Maybe a fellow IT colleague has added some extra files to the target server without your knowledge? Small files (like log files) really slow down the backup process.

Hope this helps!

[David1]

No one has modified the backup policies and there are no new files being backed up, especially anything to cause such a great difference in speed. I will attempt to reboot the fileserver at lunch today. Thanks for the reply.

[maxpain]

Hi !

We have the same problem, but only one client is performing bad.

This client have suddenly droped to 50 MB/s (No changes done). All the others klient is working fine.

Have tested to copy files to and from the client > Working fine

Checked the networkcard / switches for error > OK

Disabled antivirus

Disabled AOF

Running w2k3 SP2 on backup server and all clients.

Backup exec 11d 7170.