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by Member 35459284

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I have a DLT VS80 1/8 Autoloader.
Every thing seemed to work fine and at a resonable rate. Last week everything backed up slower than usual.
Spoke to Veritas - No help
Spoke to Microsoft - Got credit?
Spoke to HP - Exchanged HW device.
Installed the device and backed up everything with about 181MB/min speed. Except the Exchange Server, everytime I connect and try to back up a mailbox, or even a single message, I get a throughput of 25MB/min.
How is that possible, cause I'm stumbed.

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by otl

During the day ? Number of users, in/out e-mails and file fragmentation on the drive will definitely slow it down.

by georgeminton

Have you checked out the the support site at Veritas for clues on the issues?
Make sure the nic settings are correct for speed and duplex and that no one has messed with the router/switch settings that could cause an issue. Exchange requires a special agent in Veritas which I suppose you already have. At certain times in the night there can be issues backing up an exchange server as they perform certain clean up task automatically if I am not mistaken. Veritas has great help notes but nic setting are critical to good backups. Alacritech makes buffering nics designed for backups. Hope this helps some.

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