John,

Did you enabled the Virus Scan for the new Backup? I know it is an silly
Question, but maybe it helps

Regards
Jan

John" wrote:
>
>About 6 weeks ago we started having a problem with a remote backup from
one
>of our other servers from another building. Usually this backup takes on
>a normal FULL backup about 16 hrs being that it is about 3 miles away. Now
>all of a sudden this backup job is taking 24 + hrs. and it not even being
>finished. Would anyone know why this would happen? I have reinstalled the
>Backup Agent and recreated that backup job and still the same thing. Any
>help would be great!
>
>Thanks

It isn't enabled, but thanks for the idea.

"Jan Pollnow" wrote:
>
>John,
>
>Did you enabled the Virus Scan for the new Backup? I know it is an silly
>Question, but maybe it helps
>
>Regards
>Jan
>
>John" wrote:
>>
>>About 6 weeks ago we started having a problem with a remote backup from
>one
>>of our other servers from another building. Usually this backup takes on
>>a normal FULL backup about 16 hrs being that it is about 3 miles away.
Now
>>all of a sudden this backup job is taking 24 + hrs. and it not even being
>>finished. Would anyone know why this would happen? I have reinstalled the
>>Backup Agent and recreated that backup job and still the same thing. Any
>>help would be great!
>>
>>Thanks
>

3 miles away? How are they connected? WAN link over DSL, T1? Wouldn't it be
better if you install a local backup server in that building?

"John" wrote in message news:3d58f629@hronntp01....
>
> About 6 weeks ago we started having a problem with a remote backup from
one
> of our other servers from another building. Usually this backup takes on
> a normal FULL backup about 16 hrs being that it is about 3 miles away. Now
> all of a sudden this backup job is taking 24 + hrs. and it not even being
> finished. Would anyone know why this would happen? I have reinstalled the
> Backup Agent and recreated that backup job and still the same thing. Any
> help would be great!
>
> Thanks