Are you backing up to disk or directly to tape?  I have three Exchange
2000 server backing up about 100 gig a piece over 2.5 - 3 hrs going
directly to tape.  

What are connecting speeds to disk or tape?  Fibre or 10/100

Kenny Barnes
Systems Analyst
GmacInsurance
336-770-8280
kenny.barnes AT gmacinsurnace DOT com

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
MC Matt Cooper (2838)
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:19 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Optimizing Exchange backup/recover?

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
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