I checked and the parallelism  was set to 4, so I will increase that, but
will it make a difference. Will networker do multiple mailbox backups at 
the same time with "MSEXCH:MB" since I thought it will only read 1 mailbox
at any one time. Do have to split the backup into chunks 
e.g.
        MSEXCH:MB/1 - 10 Users/
        MSEXCH:MB/11 - 20 Users/
        MSEXCH:MB/etc... Users/
        
I think our speed problem is down to the Windows server reading the 
mailboxes, since a normal backup of the data store is very quick:

MSEXCH:IS 7900 MB 00:15:05 5 file (compared with MSEXCH:MB 6989 MB  5:46:27) 

I may be look into the EXMERGE option, which may not increase backup speed, but
will reduce Tape Backup speed!


Andrew  

> What is your parallelism for these backups set to? Even at 330K/sec, you
> should get around 4GB/hour of the backup. We get around 800K/sec doing
> bricklevel backups (Exchange 2003, Windows 2003, NW Module 4.1), and
> with a parallelization set to 8 we get a pretty decent throughput.
> 
> Just for example, I just ran a custom backup with high priority
> mailboxes. The backup ran for 22 minutes and backed up 6 mailboxes with
> a total of 4,437 MB. This was running during the day with simultaneous
> access.
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Legato NetWorker discussion 
> > [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Watkins
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:03 PM
> > To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> > Subject: Re: [Networker] exchange 2003 backup of mailboxes
> > 
> >  
> > Well our Solaris 9 server takes 6 hours to backup only 55 
> > mailboxes on a windows
> > 2003 server .
> >     Processed 169466 items 6989 MB  in 5:46:27  344338 bytes/second
> > 
> > I would give up my job if we put all are users to exchange!!!
> > 
> > I only do it now and then but how can we backup up the Mailboxes?
> > 
> > > I was surprised to hear that anybody is using NetWorker to 
> > do mailbox 
> > > backups, it's far too slow for us to use - our setup is NW 
> > server 7.1.2.
> > > under Solaris 8, Exchange 2000 (400 mailboxes) and NME 4.0.1 under 
> > > Win2k.
> > > 
> > > Can I ask how many mailboxes you back up?
> > > 
> > > Does anyone else do mailbox backups?
> > 
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
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