Some extra figures ...

I am running a new test ...

FSA task started at 11:06

at 13:00 (nearly 2 hours later) only 920 files were archived which is pretty under expectations, not?

Performance during full archiving process : see attachment ...)

I added a second file server target to the system (this server is still Win2003 ...)

Created some test data on this server.

Here, it took 30 minutes to run a report mode of the FSA task on this server going through 1300 files...

R.

The image above even though it is not complete looks like you have a very high paging going on. If this is correct then you are low in memory. EV9 requires 8GB of  mem not 3GB

Also you need to take into account that checkpoint does a walk of the directory structure each time an archiving run starts. This means the deeper the directory structure you are archiving the slower it will be before any files start to be archived as checkpoint will need to walk the entire directory structure before it reaches the point where it last stopped archiving