Re: Month End Strategies (TDP for Exchange)
2004-03-30 18:50:56
Yes, the PST files will be bigger given that they store all the messages and
attachments for each mailbox in seperate files. If you have a lot of mail
traffic to internal groups you will notice the growth as Exchange only needs to
store 1 copy of an attachment per database regardless of the number of
recipients, wheres each relevant .PST will have a copy.
On the plus side, however, ExMerge does not need to be run on the Exchange
server itself. You can create and archive the .PST files on any TSM client
that has the disk space (perhaps older, cheaper disk).
David Smith
Technical Specialist
Business Services and Resources
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Ochs, Duane
Sent: Wed 3/31/2004 9:32 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Cc:
Subject: Re: Month End Strategies (TDP for Exchange)
PSTs increase the overall backup significantly. The PSTs could be 5 - 10
times the size of the exchange infostore.
We do use our long term backups regularly and have run into a number of
problems using the whole DB. OS level of the restore server, SP level of
exchange, log file problems on the starting of the IS and very long
restore
times for 40Gb db from DLT7000. A lot of things can happen over a three
year
retention period.
Backing up the PSTs may be a decent idea if your DBs are not that large
or
you can spare the space.
Duane
-----Original Message-----
From: David Smith [mailto:davidsm AT BSR.COM DOT AU]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 5:16 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Month End Strategies (TDP for Exchange)
I assume that a month end backup will be used to restore individual mail
items/boxes where required sometime down the track. How about using
ExMerge
(sp?) to create .PST files once a month and archive them? Should make
restoration much easier as well as being a simple task to create and
track
the archives.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Wayne Prasek
Sent: Wed 3/31/2004 3:20 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Cc:
Subject: Month End Strategies (TDP for Exchange)
I'm wondering what the best strategy to get a month end backup
of
Exchange going. We would like to keep the backup for an
indefinite
amount of time (most likely a few years). The backup tape(s)
will
be
sent offsite. Currently we have a nightly backup of Exchange
which
expires after 30 days.
I have a couple ideas on how to accomplish this. I want to hear
what
other people are doing. Thanks in advance.
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Wayne Prasek
I.T. Support Analyst (Server)
204-985-1694
Wprasek AT mpi.mb DOT ca
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