> Your speed problem is on the clients.  Granted AV scanning on the 
> server could impact database performance, but what it sounds like 
> your running into is issues with on access scanning of the files, on
> the client.

I agree. The weird thing - if I am running a backup job, and I have 2 
other cloning jobs running - one manual clone, one a clone from a 
scheduled cloning job - I will have horrible speeds while all 3 are 
running. "Horrible" = 10MB and less.

If I stop the backup job (that is writing directly to tape), my cloning 
speeds jump to 20-30MB each..

As soon as the scheduled cloning job ends, the speed on the manual cloning 
job jumps to approx 50MB.

That says to me that it can't just be a problem on the clients, because if 
it was, stopping jobs running wouldn't increase the speed of the remaining 
jobs, as the clients of the remaining jobs wouldn't know, or care, that 
the backup job of another client ended. That should have no effect on the 
speed of a still running job. But it does.

So it has to be something server-related, as well.

> You're product is running a virus scan of every file being backed up
> before it's backed up.  This is, as your seeing having a big impact 
> on backups.  You can test this by running a backup of the client 
> with AV on, then stop the service and disable it and rerun the 
> backup.  You will likely see a pretty dramatic difference. 

Stopping it on the server doesn't provide a big boost, I know that. I have 
not been able to stop it on the clients.

> 
> The enterprise product will let you exclude files opened by certain 
> applications, in your case you would exclude files being accessed by
> save.exe. 
> Without this option, there are not a lot of you can do.

I already have all Networker binaries on the exclusion lists, both on the 
server, and on the client.

Upgrading involves a lot of steps, because I have to add the Enterprise 
version to the administrative server (which we've never done), and then 
push the new Enterprise version to selected clients. Which will require a 
reboot of the clients, which means scheduled downtime, etc. Oh, we're 
going to do it, it will just take a while for us to learn how to do it; 
test it; schedule the upgrade; test it.

Thanks