I’m very often called in to find out why a backup has suddenly stopped working. I am, however, never called in to optimize or improve performance on backups. Unfortunately for my customers as with a little forward planning and a touch of optimization, many of the data backup problems can be circumvented completely or, at least, planned for.

Whilst setting up a new backup system for a customer I happened upon the following article which I find very useful:

http://www.backupexecfaq.com/faq/getting-started/optimising-your-backup.html