Silly question: are you using the exchange agent? If not, then I could easily understand ut taking a lot longer. Is the backup at a "database" level, or at an "individual mailbox" level... the latter will probably slow things down too.Is the netwok c...
We used to use (and still use to some extent) Arcserve 2000 to backup various servers... although right now it's just doing exchange backups.We have moved over to using Backup Exec (9.1) and have just (in the last 2 weeks) ALSO installed the BE agent...