Hi Mark,

I have 2 much smaller Exchange servers (120GB & 200GB) and use the NBU 
Exchange agent (still v5.1 for the moment).

I find the agent does as well pushing data as a small-file-count file 
system backup (i.e., very well!), with differential incrementals being a 
bit slower ... maybe half-speed, but even my active Exchange server 
changes only about 2% per day. (So incremental backup times are a big 
win here).

"Mailbox" backups were unbelievably slow and error prone (terminations 
as well as never ending backups); think of mismatched network adapters 
and then slow down some more. :-(

Cheers, Wayne

Donaldson, Mark wrote, in part, on 2009-06-15 2:07 PM:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We’re using the Netapp “Snapmanager for Exchange” software to make 
> Exchange backups right now. We use it to quiesce Exchange in some way 
> and create a Netapp snapshot of the drives. Those drives are mounted 
> to another NT server and backed up as drive letters.
>
> The upshot of this is that every day we backup the entire 1.4 TB 
> Exchange database.
>
> I’d like to get out of this business.
>
> Can you folks using the NB Exchange Agent let me know the quickie 
> details of how it works (can I do incrementals?) and how it’s working 
> out for you?
>
> -M
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