NTBackup requires 18-23 hours to complete.

I am using NTBackup to backup my SBS server and since it takes soooo long to
complete I began watching the logs.....

I have my Exchange logs going to a seperate volume and it is a whopping 2Gb
of data, seems ntbackup requires 8+ hours to back this up.... Any ideas how I
can improve this?

I also have the SQl databases for sharepoint located on their own privarte
volume and ntbackup handles the 33GB of data in 5 hours, which is reasonable,
I guess.

The other log entries show reasonable performance for the size/type of
files, so I'm sure that there is no problem there.

I want to backup every day but with the server needing 23 hours to complete,
I can't. I am using Microsoft DPM to fill in the gaps so I can backup weekly.

Anyone have any suggestions, I don't want to buy more software to run on
this server unless I can show that we are saving something somewhere else.

The server uses RAID 5 arrays for storage and I backup to hard drives in the
server and in a seconadry server (DPM) so this is not a tape issue or a
network issue.

Thanks in advance.
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Sean
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