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by eminent87

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Hi,
I have recently configured a windows 2000 server for running tape backup. It's a dell power vault 110 using the dlt tapes. I've also installed veritas backup exec 8.0 on it. Everthing seems to be going ok but the only problem I'm having is thatbackup rate. It's backing up at about 5-6 mb/min. Now this is really slow considering it takes about 9 hrs just to backup only 3 gb. We have another setup that's on an NT machine and that one is backing up at 65 mb/min. Can someone tell me where to go to configure the backup speed?

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by eminent87

I have checked the scsi bios setting and played around with transfer rate on the scsi controller but it seems like that's not the problem there. Does anybody else have any other suggestions?

by azizhakim

Ideally you would like your backup unit on a separate controller.Your nt 40,does it house the unit on a separate controller or on one chain.Take a look @ the data cable length.While studying for exchange 5.5 Barry gerber's "mastering Exchange 5.5" has a paragraph piece on data chain lenght & controller which i reiterated above .Check it out & hope it helps

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