We recently upgraded our Networker environment from 7.5.x to 7.6.3 and noticed 
backups were no longer finishing within our normal backup window and that 
backups were now taking an extra 2 LTO4 tapes to complete each week. After 
poking through my logs I noticed it was the SQL server that was behaving 
differently with this new client 7.6.3. We normally use the networker client to 
backup the server itself and we also have the Networker SQL module to backup 
the SQL db's. With this new client the SQL DB files were being treated as if 
they were flatfiles and were getting backed as a such which increased the 
amount of time and space to backup. I opened up a ticket with EMC and they 
confirmed that Networker 7.6.2 to 7.6.4 have a bug which is causing the issue 
and is currently being looked into. In the mean time they offered 3 options. 
Use 7.6.1, use directives to exclude the SQL DB files or use Networker 8.0 
which apparenty is backwards compatible with 7.6.x. Hope this helps anyone !
 who has experienced the same issue.

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