Slow throughput on Exchange Information Store

[gointern]

Hey, I have Symantec Backup Exec 11d configured to backup Exchange Information Store. The rate that it backs it up at is: 138.00 MB/Min and takes about 5 hours to backup 42 GB database. Is there anything I could do to make it run faster? Any suggestions are really appreciated.

[Ken_Putnam]

Are you backing up stores only, or are you also doing legacy mailbox backups?

[gointern]

Just information store, no legacy mailbox backup. I know there are MAPI speed restrictions on that kind of backup.

[Ken_Putnam]

does a flat file backup of the Exchange Server run significantly faster? 

[gointern]

The files are excluded from the backup, but the files backups from the same partition is at rate: 1,128.00 MB/Min

[gointern]

anybody?

[Ken_Putnam]

The files are excluded from the backup, but the files backups from the same partition is at rate: 1,128.00 MB/Min

Ok, so it's not the hardware or the network.   The only other thing I can think of:  Are you doing the Exchange backups during the nightly Exchange Maintenance window?

if no, I can't  think if anything else.  You may be down to opening an incident  with Symantec |8^(

[gointern]

The backup is running throughout the night so it is during exchange maintenance. However the job starts at 11 PM and runs at 230 MB/Min. I will probably give symantec support a call.