Slow Backups

[Charles_Otstot]

I am working with a server experiencing intermittent slow backups.:
Compaq ML 570, NT 4.0 Domain Controller (yes, I know :) )
BE 6.6.3808
Compaq 40/80 DLT
~9G backed up
~2.3G free space on system partition
Daily full

Backups will run fine for several days/weeks (~150M/min for system partition, ~300M/min for data partition), then will run extremely slowly for 1-3 days (~34M/min system and 24M/min data). There are no errors in the event logs or in the job logs.
To date, we have:
1) Cleaned the drive
2) Turned off virus scanning
3) Uninstalled and reinstalled 8.6.3808

Any thoughts or insights would be appreciated.

Charlie

[Ken_Putnam]

> I am working with a server experiencing intermittent
> slow backups.:
> Compaq ML 570, NT 4.0 Domain Controller (yes, I know
> :) )
> BE 6.6.3808
> Compaq 40/80 DLT
> ~9G backed up
> ~2.3G free space on system partition
> Daily full
>
> Backups will run fine for several days/weeks
> (~150M/min for system partition, ~300M/min for data
> partition), then will run extremely slowly for 1-3
> days (~34M/min system and 24M/min data). There are no
> errors in the event logs or in the job logs.
> To date, we have:
> 1) Cleaned the drive
> 2) Turned off virus scanning
> 3) Uninstalled and reinstalled 8.6.3808
>
> Any thoughts or insights would be appreciated.
>
> Charlie


Network Backups or Local Backups?
do you have any scheduled system maintenance that may be iterfering? Defrag, Virus Scan etc?

[Charles_Otstot]

Ken,

Thanks for your reply.
There are no scheduled tasks running during the backup.
Backups are all local, and this server does not back up and remote servers.

[Ken_Putnam]

Hmmm

I really doubt that it will make any difference, but you could try 8.6.3878

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/241035.htm

[Charles_Otstot]

I thought about that (since it's going to have to be done anyway for patching). I tend to agree that it probably will do no good (and wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on the specific problem before loading it), but we'll give it a shot and see.

Did you happen to see my other ? as to whether the agent browser service is really necessary if one is not backing up any remote systems? If so, any idea?

Thanks,
Charlie