Equipment: Servers - Dell Poweredge 2850 Tape Device - Dell PowerVault 122T The Poweredge 2850 is our Terminal server and it is running Veritas 10d. All servers being backed up are remote. Our file server's files are backing up at 2702MB/min, but our Lotus Notes Server is backing up at 397MB/min. What can we do to speed up the other servers, and what is slowing it down. The Lotus Notes Server is new Power Edge 2850, and the we are backing up 143 GB of info from it.

1. What is your ethernet backbone? 2. What is the backup schedule look like? Do multiple servers backup at the same time? Are you doing unnecessary full backups every night? "Milk was a bad choice!"

Ethernet is 100Mbps Backup schedule is failry stacked. No jobs are going at the same time though. There is only one full backup, and it is necessary. Like I said, the File server jobs fly, but the E-mail server and another server we have only reach 390MB/min. They are all remote, so somewhere there is a snag. I need to check and see if they are all plugged into the same switch.

Are you using the Notes db agents? "Milk was a bad choice!"

what do you mean by "remote"? Give a person a fish you feed them for a day. Ask a person to internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

The Veritas program sees any other device, that it isn't installed on, as "remote". The Tape Drive is connected via a SCSI interface to our Terminal Server which is running the Veritas Backup. All the other servers are being backed up through this, so they are considered "remote".

So you have the agents installed for basic backup on all servers. Great. You should have free support from BE. We ran into a issue with the tcp/ip stack and BE. They had a workthru for that which may be your issue. Otherwise check on server nic speeds, switch ports the server nic connects to and make sure you are at full duplex with no transmission errors. BTW without the Notes module and a open file module you are not getting the backups you think you are. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.