B2D slow on EVA5000

[clay bowman]

I'm trying to do a simple B2D using Backup Exec 9.1 using software compression. The EVA5000 has SATA drives where my user files are and I'm trying to B2D to FATA drives also attached to the same SAN I can't seem to get over 200 mb/m. I have an NSR 1200 attached to the backup server and 2gb HBA and switches. It has to be something simple that I'm overlooking. Any help would be appreciated.

[AlexZhang]

what backup mode do you use, image or file-system mode? I mean, if you backup a lot of small files in file-system mode, the speed will be slow

[clay bowman]

I ran an Exchange B2D and the speed was 660 mb/m, is this normal when running B2D. Maybe I'm looking for numbers like 1200-1400 mb/m but that isn't realistic? Does anyone run B2D jobs? If so what is a normal speed? Does anyone have any docs explaining the correct way to set the job up?

Thanks in advance

[clay bowman]

Maybe I'm asking the question wrong. I have 800GB of space presented to my backup server, which are FATA disks on my EVA5000. This setup has proven to be slower than I was expecting. Should I unpresent the disks to the backup server and instead present it to the file and\or exchange server and run the backup from the file and\or exchange servers using the SSO option? Should I try doing a SnapClone to the FATA drives and using that for my B2D jobs. Any help would be appreciated.