Look at your other processes...
McAfee has an ~on access scan~ and I've seen windows servers have their
backup times more than double because the anti-virus software is scanning
every file being backed up when it is opened by TSM.
Also ck what is running on your TSM server... expiration can put locks on
the data base that will impact the backup.
Then follow up with all the standard... what is your resource utilization,
how many other drives need to be backed up... how many files are stored in
tsm, etc...

I take it you have tested by running only a "backup systemstate"


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
David E Ehresman
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:31 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Slow System State backups

TSM Server 5.4.4.0 running on AIX 5.3 with 2 bonded gig ethernet.

About 15% of my WIndows servers take over 5 hours to backup SYSTEM STATE.
The rest all backup in 2 - 50 minutes.  How do I diagnosis what's wrong with
the slow ones.

Picking one as a starting point. It is running WIndows Server R2 Enterprise
Edition Server Pack 2.  It has 2 quad core 2.0 GHz processors and 6.0 GB or
ram. It's network is running at 1 gig.  It is running TSM client 5.4.2.4.
It is a Sharepoint SQL cluster server.

Any ideas on what the problem might be or what to look at?