I have 6.50sp4 installed.
I have noticed significant differences in dump elapsed times for the same database.
It appears to be associated with whether a local drive dump file is used (eg D:MSSQLBACKUPBACKUP1.DAT) versus a UNC name for a local drive dump file (eg \COMPUTERAD$MSSQLBACKUPBACKUP1.DAT) where ComputerA is the database
server.

Has anyone found a way to get the local UNC dumps to run faster or a fast as the local drive dump files. I was hopping to convert to using only
UNC dump file names.

Thanks.