Hi Robert,

Microsoft had original intentions to add striping into
Exchange legacy-style backups, but opted against it,
most likely to focus their efforts on VSS backups.

DP/Exchange has nothing built in to break apart the
storage group list and create multiple streams.
The only way to do this is to create and launch
separate commands, specifying the individual storage groups.

I have heard of a few customers that have written
Perl scripts that query the storage groups and then build
the commands dynamically in order to do this
multiple-instance/parallelism automatically.

Thanks,

Del

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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> wrote on 02/04/2010
03:18:21 AM:

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> Hi Del
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> About the stripes option I have Exchange 2003 with TDP 5.5.1.00 , we
> have 3 storage groups and backup them with this following command:
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> start /B tdpexcc backup * full /tsmoptfile=dsm.opt /
> logfile=excsch.log >> excfull.log
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> My question it is a way to backup them in parallel without doing a
> backup of each of them separately ????
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> Regards
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> Robert Ouzen