Tom,

I cannot comment on the Seagate solution but I do know
that the Microsoft Exchange Server backup API's give you access
to both Exchange Databases (Directory and Information Store)
as ONE LARGE OBJECT.  Any application that uses the documented
Exchange backup and restore API's to do backups, must deal
with them as one large object.
But, when doing incremental backups, only the log files are
backed up and not the entire database itself.
I hope this helps.

Del Hoobler
IBM ADSM Agent Development

>> We're looking at using ADSM for our MS-Exchange backups, with either the
>> Seagate BackupExec software or the as-of-yet-unavailable IBM agent. How
>> do (will) these work? Is the datastore treated as one large object? Or
>> do the agents do backup of the datastore content?

>> We're trying to get a feel for how long the process will take with a
>> five-gig datastore over our 100 Mbit ethernet.

>> TIA

>> Tom Kauffman
>> Sr. Technical Analyst
>> NIBCO Inc.