I have a Dell PowerEdge Server that’s running SQL Server 2000 software. I am trying to backup the databases to a Dell PowerVault 124t LTO-2 using the Veritas Backup Exec 11d software. I have ran test backups and restores and those were successful. When I went to backup full databases, it took an enormous amount of time… it wasn’t done by morning and was running at 3Mb/Sec when the LTO-2 is supposed to run at 24Mb/Sec. I ran an incremental backup to see if the smaller backup size would make a difference, went away for the weekend, came back and it was still running… running at 3Mb/Sec with 53 hours of run time going. Im not sure what I can do to increase the job rate or have the backups finish in a decent amount of time. Any thoughts or advice will be greatly appreciated.