Exchange Jop Rate Changed - negatively

[Mark_Bloom]

I am running the same job I have in the past to backup ONLY mailboxes and public folders. The job use to run at 50 mb/min. About 3 hours to backup 8 gb. That was good. Now its at 7MB/min. What is the deal? I understand backup is slow on these mailboxes, but nothing has been changed and it dropped tremendously!

[Ajit_Kulkarni]

Hello

The data transfer speed with Backup Exec is dependant on the following important factors (also refer to the Technotes given below as reference):
1) Operating System
2) Hardware
3) Network
Refer to the following TechNotes:
TITLE: Reasons why the data throughput rate can be slower than the theoretical maximum when backing up to tape media.
URL - http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/231488.htm
TITLE: What VERITAS Backup Exec (tm) settings can be modified to reduce the amount of time it takes for a backup to run?
URL - http://support.veritas.com/docs/249090
Ensure that you are not running the AntiVirus software in a dual mode (ie. VAPI/MAPI) but only in MAPI mode. Please refer the following document and make relevant changes in the AV software for Exchange 2003.

http://support.veritas.com/docs/264851


Hope this helps you.

Regards



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[Auto_Carr_2]

If you have applied any hotfixes check the file versions list in the related documents closely. I experienced a marked slow down in backing up Exchange via remote agent after installing Hotfix 15. What I found was that the file versions of the remote agent on the remote server were not updated to the proper versions. I choose to copy the correct versions from the media server to the remote server and that fixed my slowdown issue with backing up my Exchange server.