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We recently went to a disk-based appliance solution for our company's backups.

I've set everything up and monitoring the backups shows that they are crawling. Like 64 MB/min on a 1 GB ethernet network.

We're also running Symantec Endpoint Protection on all servers and clients.

I've found that if I disable network intrusion prevention on a server, the speed of the backup jumps to 1GB/min. That is very significant.

Question is, what does network intrusion prevention do for servers? From what I can tell it's there to block malware from websites and since no one really browses the web from these servers can I just disable it for servers?

Tom
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I would recommend that you turn Network Intrusion Prevention off on all of your systems.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH104434

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO80870

joeqwerty
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  • I was thinking about turning it off for servers and leaving it on for clients. Would that work? – Tom Feb 15 '14 at 15:58
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    Personally I would turn it off on all systems and make sure the Windows Firewall is turned on. That in combination with the real time Symantec AV engine should provide sufficient protection. I haven't seen any Symantec installation where Network Intrusion Prevention is enabled that hasn't had the same issue you're having. – joeqwerty Feb 15 '14 at 16:01