Another idea . . . .

Sounds like the backup is working correctly, just taking a long time.
What is the load on the firewall system during the backup?  You might
be hitting a max throughput on the firewall.  Try turning on
client compression to ease the firewalls load.

Rick

On 16 Jul 2001, at 11:14, Steve Martin wrote:
> Firewalls running Checkpoint.  I got a 25 GB SQL DB that takes over 40-50
> hours to backup.  I've tested the same backup but bypassing the FW's and the
> backup took only about 1 hour!  It is not only the SQL DB but any large file
> takes a tremendous amount of time to backup through the FW.