We are trying to implement a new backup design for our
current Exchange 2003 environment. Today, we use standard network
based backups over the LAN and do daily full backups using NetBackup 6.5.4.
With a project to expand our current mailbox quotas for our Field
clients, we needed an improved backup option for performance and
application/server impact. We are implementing offhost backups
using Netbackup’s advanced client with snapshots that integrate with
Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and HDS’s Shadow Image.
Our testing went pretty good but we are now in production on a subset of
servers and are seeing multiple issues with VSS going into a failed state.
It looks like there have been multiple issues with VSS on
W2K3 servers in the past and we do have a few patches to apply.
I am hoping to hear from someone that has tried something similar, any best
practices, is there a way to get VSS to multi-thread, any tips/tricks/gotcha’s?
I’m wondering if VSS is truly enterprise capable of handling multiple 250
GB Information Stores.
TIA
Brian