Slow backup issue in WSS3

I ran my first backup since installing Windows SP2 over the weekend. I am
not sure this had anything to do with my problem.

I run my backups manually from the Central Admin console. My backups were
taking 1 minute (not much content yet). Not counting the 1 hour delay from
DST my backups are now taking between 2 and 3 hours. The jobs stick on
backup up WSS_Search. The first 10 out of 11 items on the list are done in
seconds. The progress for WSS_Search sits in "Preparing Backup" for about 2
hours and then takes 30 to 60 minutes to back up Search. I read that others
had luck with changing time zone off from DST so I changed the time zone to
PST with no help. No errors are being logged.

Is this enough information? Suggestions?


By the way "stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs" doesn't work to force the job to
start.

Steve


.