Hi Eric,

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 02/25/2010
09:11:30 AM:

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> Hi Del!
> Is a parameter like the DP for SQL's parameter /STRIPes=n also available
> for the DP for Exchange client?
> I checked the manual, but could not find one...
> Thank you very much for your reply!
> Kind regards,
> Eric van Loon
> KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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> > Hi Eric,
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> > Have you considered using the "/STRIPes=n" option?
> > It allows you to break up the single stream of bytes
> > into "n" stripes on different parallel sessions.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Del