Oh the main reason we split our alphabet mailboxes up like that was to
improve backup times.

After adding the save sets for each letter we turned up the squirrels on
Parallelism!

Again hope this helps. /ALE

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Kilpatrick, Mark
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 4:38 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] exchange mailbox backup query
> 
> What methods are available to backup exchange mailboxes other 
> than using the MSEXCH:MB saveset or Networker User. I know 
> that I can specify individual mailboxes by using the -L 
> option with a file list but this is not suitable as I would 
> have to keep updating the list when new mailboxes are created 
> or when old mailboxes are deleted.
> 
>  
> 
> I would like to instruct networker to backup mailboxes as a 
> number of jobs rather than one large job (which may fail and 
> then the mailbox backup must start from the beginning). I 
> have tried to use...
> 
> MSEXCH:MB/a*-f*
> 
> MSEXCH:MB/g*-k*
> 
> ...but this does not work (this is the netbackup method).
> 
>  
> 
> Can I use exclude directives with networker to exclude 
> troublesome mailboxes? There are some mailboxes that report 
> errors each evening and sometimes the backup fails on these 
> with inactivity timeout (have changed the timeout from 30 to 
> 300 as per the manual). If I can exclude these I could at 
> least complete a proof of concept to show that the mailbox 
> backup is capable of completing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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