Hi Matt,

Have you tried backing the storage groups up in parallel?
For example, assuming you have four storage groups, you can start
a separate instance of the Data Protection for Exchange
command-line interface to back up each storage group at the same time.

Thanks,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 09/09/2004
09:19:15 AM:

> Hello all,
>     I have to backup a pair of exchange servers that (windows 2003) that
> each have about 200GB of data.  It is taking over 9 hours to do a FULL
> backup of the servers.  I was wondering what can be done to increase my
> throughput.  I have found /Buffers=    and /Buffersize=  as performance
> options but nothing else.   Are there ways to multithread these backups?
>
> Thanks in Advance
> Matt