we do online backups only, no stop of services

restore times are the same as backup times. Then applying logs to the
databases take much more time. Therefore we take 2 full backups / week and 3
incremental / day. Taking 2 fulls / week cut the numbre of logs to apply to
50 %.

Regards,

René Lambelet
Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 
55, av. Nestlé  CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) 
*+41'21'924'35'43  7+41'21'924'28'88  * K1-117
email rene.lambelet AT nestle DOT com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Glassman - Admin [SMTP:admin AT IAA.GOV DOT IL]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 6:50 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS
> Exchange
> 
> Seems that a lot of you are happy with the exchange backup.
> 
> So let me ask if I may :
> 
> 1. Do you backup Exchange while active or do you shut down the services
> prior to backup ?
> 
> 2. How many of you have had to restore your whole Exchange from backup,
> and
> how long did it take, and did it work fully or were there any glitches
> that
> had to be retouched to get it all running ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Palmadesso Jack [SMTP:Jack.Palmadesso AT SWPC.SIEMENS DOT COM]
> > Sent: á ðåáîáø 13 2000 22:55
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS
> > Exchange
> > 
> > I'd have to say we are happy also.  We have over 18 exchange servers
> with
> > 10
> > to 30 gig dbs.  All 18 incremental finish well within 2 hours each day.
> > Full backups take 1 to 4 hours each depending on the load on our AIX
> ADSM
> > server.  All Exchange backups are done over gigabit Ethernet.  One
> > drawback
> > is Microsoft's lack of an API that allows message extraction from the
> > backups.  We have a mixed Notes/Exchange mail environment.  The Notes
> > users
> > still enjoy the ability to restore deleted messages long after they were
> > "accidentally" removed.  Exchange users have a 15 day deleted item
> > retention
> > period they have to go by.  
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:Talafous AT TIMKEN DOT COM]
> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:59 PM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange
> > 
> > 
> > Very happy! We have nine (9) MS Exchange servers with 35GB information
> > stores.  Our backup window is 2 hours and TDP for MSExchange does this
> > just
> > fine. Of course, you have to consider the infrastructure here (Gigabit
> > Ethernet).  All in all, it works well and the Exchange admins are
> happier
> > with TSM than they were with Veritas.
> > 
> > John G. Talafous              IS Technical Principal
> > The Timken Company            Global Software Support
> > P.O. Box 6927                 Data Management
> > 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W.         Phone: (330)-471-3390
> > Canton, Ohio USA  44706-0927  Fax  : (330)-471-4034 
> > talafous AT timken DOT com           http://www.timken.com
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF. [mailto:Rene.Lambelet AT NESTLE DOT 
> > COM]
> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 11:56 AM
> > To: ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
> > Subject: Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange
> > 
> > 
> > happy with it, 
> > 
> > backuping 4-5 GB(hour), our main exchange server has a 17 GB database. 2
> > others have about 12 GB database.
> > 
> > René Lambelet
> > Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 
> > 55, av. Nestlé  CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) 
> > *+41'21'924'35'43  7+41'21'924'28'88  * K1-117
> > email rene.lambelet AT nestle DOT com
> > Visit our site: http://www.nestle.com
> > 
> >         This message is intended only for the use of the addressee and 
> >         may contain information that is privileged and confidential.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stefan Holzwarth [SMTP:stefan.holzwarth AT ZENTRALE.ADAC DOT DE]
> > > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 5:47 PM
> > > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > > Subject:      Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS
> > Exchange
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > we intend to use the tivoli agent for exchange, but have no experience
> > > regarding
> > > performance (backup & restore), easyness, robustness ....
> > > 
> > > Because of the importance of the exchange environment we are looking
> for
> > > reference installations and we want to know of your experiences.
> > > 
> > > Our environment:
> > > - 2 * MS exchange server 5.5 (10GB/30GB)
> > > - network (tokenring&atm backbone)
> > > - 3.7 NT-clients 
> > > - 3.7.3.6 TSM Server on MVS
> > > -2 * 3590 Tapelibraries
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks a lot for your input
> > > Stefan Holzwarth
> > > 
> > > 
> > >
> >
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