This is also a BIG issue with us (over a terabyte). We'd hoped that doing 
incrementals through transaction log backups would help (with the added 
bonus of "point in time" restores), but that unfortunately, didn't help.

/Steve
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Bobby R Windle wrote:

> Any one have any creative ideas of how I can get faster backups from a
> windows server.
>
> We are running Lotus Notes on a Windows Intel box. The server is a Compaq
> G5.
> We are backing up 400 - 500 GB every night of mail files. The daily &
> weekly backups are doing
> disk backup - data de-duplication. The backup through put is 6 mb/sec to
> 6.5/mb/sec.
> The monthly backups are going to LTO2 tape. Getting may be 7 mb/sec to
> tape.
>
> Either way backups are taking to long. ( 16 -18 hours ).
> Any one have any creative ways I can get backups in a shorter window?
> Looking for some
> ideas to get the window down by 50% - 75%.
>
> thanks
>
>
> Bobby Windle | W.L. Gore & associates, Inc.
> Backup / Disaster Recovery Admin
> work: 302 292 4026
> cell  : 302 588 7374
> bwindle AT wlgore DOT com | http://www.gore.com
>
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