I have a CPA that is backing up 300gb a night to tape. The problem is that its taking 7.5 hours to complete the backup and the backup window only allows for 8 hours. Its an all windows environment and all servers are at the same office. The tape backup is connected to the file server directly with a SCSI cable. It takes 1.5 hours to backup 50 Gb of data on the file server, and the other 6 hours to backup 250 Gb from an exchange server coming through the network at gigabit speeds. Anyone have any suggestions on a better way to do this? We ran cat6 cable between all of the servers hoping that would increase the exchange backup, but it did not!
