Hello,
That is the direction we are moving, utilizing SAN to host notes server 
data, however, you did not mention wheather or not you were using ethernet 
to do your backup that saw 80 % improvment or was it Snap Technogies, 
block backups that saw this improvments ?
Do you use notes module before \after ? or was it regular file level 
backups.
Please Detail your sol

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