I have two gigabit links to the switch (I'm using link aggregation) for each server so I should have plenty of bandwidth. I do run other file backups on the backup exec server and they run much faster than the remote backups. Nick
What kind of network connection do you have between your backup server and the production servers?
The cluster and the backup server back up via the network, so if you're running into a high network utilization (either because of a 100Mbit nic connection, or just a lot of traffic on the existing link), the reason your backups are slow may be due to the network bandwidth available from the cluster to the backup server.
One way to test this is to perform a backup of data that's local on the backup server and see if that's going any faster.
acoustix
5 Posts
0
May 30th, 2007 17:00
Dennise458
1 Rookie
•
101 Posts
0
May 30th, 2007 17:00
The cluster and the backup server back up via the network, so if you're running into a high network utilization (either because of a 100Mbit nic connection, or just a lot of traffic on the existing link), the reason your backups are slow may be due to the network bandwidth available from the cluster to the backup server.
One way to test this is to perform a backup of data that's local on the backup server and see if that's going any faster.