#SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 BACKUP SPEED INSTALL#
#SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 BACKUP SPEED FULL#

especially at first when you don't know how long they're going to take. Yes, it is a pain in the ass to get the schedule set up. If you're looking at 30 servers in a single job, how do you figure out which one is causing the speed problem? It could be that all of your servers are fine, except for one that's running at 1mb/min. I've always preferred to set up each server as its own job. I've brought the issue to our network administrator and IT director, but I'd like to have some ideas to bring to the table when we discuss this.Įdit - Thank you to all who have posted with tips, ideas and guidance, this gave me a lot to read about and / or google and research on my own.

I know enough to know that this current system sucks but not enough to know the right steps to take. I'm the help desk manager, so I don't have a background in windows server administration-this was just kind of dumped in my lap. Would I notice a huge difference by doing D2D2T? Seems like that would allow multithreaded backups, but would that be the solution to all my problems?

Should I ditch Backup Exec entirely? As much as people talk crap about it, it does work fairly well for a simple setup like ours, if I can tune the performance. This is insanity, no? I'm lucky if I get daily incremental backups to run two days a week. The whole 'Weekly Full' cycle Starts Friday and ends sometime the following Wednesday. The Weekly filer backup then runs and takes approximately 60 hours to complete, at the average rate of 875MB/minute. Average rate: 1.3GB/Minute ( yes, you read that right, per minute).

#SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 BACKUP SPEED FULL#

The weekly windows full backup starts on Friday and takes about 35 hours to complete. Every quarter I set aside one of the full sets and cycle in a fresh set of tapes. Every week the oldest of the four sets gets rotated into the autoloader while the other three sets stay in a safe in another building. We have four sets of backup tapes for the full. Our strategy is to do full backup every weekend, then daily incrementals M-F. The filer backup just attaches to the network share and backs up the files (I think just via SMB).

#SYMANTEC BACKUP EXEC 2014 BACKUP SPEED INSTALL#

We don't use any VM clients for BE, just install the normal windows client onto each server We back up directly to LTO4 tape via a single quantum superloader 3 We back up about 30 windows servers, 2/3 of them virtual.

Symantec backup exec 2014 backup speed