No, i didnt face any problem.
You have mentioned that system state restore is very slow. This is because the size of the system state in Windows 2008 is large.
Here you must have enabled Number of jobs per clients more than 1 i.e if you specify say for eg. 7 then your policy will first run a parent job and then 7 other child jobs. In activity monitor you will see 7 jobs running for your policy. Also you mus...
This is absolutely normal. The size of system state in freshly installed server 2008 is around 6Gb. If more data exists on your server the size will definately reach 8-9Gb or it may even increase depending on the data on your server.
The backup time ...
I faced the similar issue. In this case first I unmounted and then mounted the database. Also in my policy, in the selection list i unchecked and again checked the storage groups. After this the problem was solved.
Note: Also check that any of the ...