On my way out the door, I am going to ask "Is there is a better way?"

Current
The Mailbox Exchange Backups are setup as two groups:
     Exchange mbfull a - m
     Exchange mbfull n - z

Parallelism is set to 6

We have a gigE network with dual cards in the servers one for the server
network traffic and one for the user network traffic.

The setup/performance questions are...

Currently let's say there are THREE storage nodes:

Hq1
Hq2
Hq3

The mailboxes are NOT setup by any pattern, not by group, not by
alphanumeric, no rhyme no reason. But the data load is balanced between
the three storage nodes.

The question is Speed-Speed-Speed!

We want the fastest backups possible, while keeping in mind that we want
to be able to restore fast so the user who deleted his bosses critical
files folder can get that folder RESTORED fast as well.

Do you make more STORAGE NODEs?

Do you change the backup and parrallelism down to the storage node
numbers and backup the storage nodes instead of a-m, etc...?

What are your thoughts?

Oh and Happy 3 day weekend to my fellow Gov't Employees/Contractors!

Semper Fidelis et Paratus! /ALE

Eddie Albert, SinSei of SANs - (703) 696-5509

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