Folks,

I'm pretty new to NB4.5, but I have a question to ask.  My environment:

W2K master server with robot and 4 LTO2 drives
W2K media server with 4 LTO2 drives

Right now I have ~ 1000 mailboxes in our exchange environment (Exchange 2000).  
I have a policy set up to run a flat file backup of my Information Store, and 
it runs in about 2 1/2 hours at a rate of 21k/second.  When I run a mailbox 
level backup, the speed goes down to ~2k/second.  I started this backup at 
midnight, and it is still running (backing up 108 GB) as of 1:25 P.M. today.  
Our information store database is ~194 GB and will continue to grow while we 
migrate users from GroupWise to exchange.  

I went through the archives, and saw several scenarios similar to mine, however 
I didn't see too many resolutions.

First question:  Is it normal for the brick level backups to run this slow?
Second question: If not, what are some of the ways to configure this to run 
faster?

Any help is appreciated.

Jim Langston 
Unix Systems Administrator 
Northeast Medical Center 
jlangston AT northeastmedical DOT org