Windows 2003 Server R2 running much slower

[Jeff_Hofstetter]

About a month ago I installed Windows Server 2003 RELEASE 2 on two of my servers. Since then, my backups have gone from 6 hours to more than 10 hours.

I searched the forums and saw a thread about this but no resolution other than the usual "why backups aren't as fast as the theoritical max" and "be sure to defrag".

Has anyone else experience this and come up with a solution?

[STeve_O]

Try a backup to disk job of about 1 gig then try ntbackup to disk 1 gig and see what happens
Just to rule out the tape hardware /tape drivers/scsi drivers afecting the performance

[Amruta_Bhide]

Hello Jeff,

Please try the Test Steve has recomended and get back to us with an update!

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Thanks.

[Jeff_Hofstetter]

OK, I did the two suggested test with the follow results:

Backupexec to disk: 1.1GB in 1.07 minutes
NTBackup to disk: 1.1GB in 4.38 minutes
Backupexec to tape: 1.1GB in 2.28 minutes

The full backup which I did this past Friday/Saturday took 13 hours (380GB). The last full backup before RELEASE 2 was 7.5 hours (392GB).

[Gauri_Ketkar]

Hi,

What is the exact version of BEWS 10.0 do you have ?

If 10.0.5520 then please upgrade to 10.1.5629 !

BEWS : 10.0.5520
SCL : http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/264484.htm

BEWS : 10d supports Win 2003 R2

SCL : http://support.veritas.com/docs/278254

Does Backup Exec for Windows Servers support Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2?
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/281856.htm


Also update all remote agents after upgrade !!



Update us on the same and revert for any further Query
Hope this will help you


Thank you
Gauri