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Fwd: FW: FW: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Backups

2002-10-02 16:52:24
Subject: Fwd: FW: FW: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Backups
From: vbperry AT hotmail DOT com (Perry Brown)
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 20:52:24 +0000
Sorry I sent out the wrong message:^)
> >
> >
> > We had used the Exchange agent and found it kind of kludgey.
> > When migrating
> > backups from 3.2 to 3.4 and Exchange to 2000 I worked with
> > the Exchange
> > admins and they had said their max DB size would be 50G so we
> > thought well
> > why not back it up to local disk using the built in Exchange
> > back up utils.
> > So we bought some 80G IDE disks (cheaper than purchasing the
> > agent), we were
> > going to try a IDE RAID card but found it was not really
> > required for the
> > backups, they where fast enough as is. Created one large
> > volume on the
> > server, created a backup job on the local host to back to
> > this volume using
> > the built in backup utils.
> >
> > On the Master we created a new class for the Exchange client
> > that only backs
> > up that volume. Doing a full each night. You will just need
> > to time when the
> > local backup finishes then set your Netbackup job to kickoff
> > after that.
> >
> > This works great for the Exchange Admins since if they have
> > data corruption
> > they have a couple local copies on the disk they can pull
> > from, very fast.
> > If a restore from tape is required it gets restored like a
> > normal file,
> > again faster in our experience then using the Exchange Agent restore.
> >
> > Perry
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Spearman, David [mailto:spe08 AT co.henrico.va DOT us]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 8:50 AM
> > > > To: 'Carlos Perales'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > > > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Backups
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Use the Veritas Exchange Agent, works fine.
> > > >
> > > > David Spearman
> > > > County of Henrico, Va
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Carlos Perales [mailto:Carlos.Perales AT kellogg DOT com]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:47 AM
> > > > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > > > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exchange Backups
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > All,
> > > >
> > > > I'm running NBU 3.4.1
> > > > We used to have Lotus Notes running on our mail servers,
> > which was
> > > > very good since all notes database are independent and
> > can be easily
> > > > managed by OTM.
> > > >
> > > > Now, we are about to change to exchange.  I knew that
> > exchange works
> > > > as single databases (in this case will be more than
> > 30GB). OTM will
> > > > not be able to backup a file like this.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas/hints on how to backup these kind of servers ?
> > > >
> > > > THanks !
> > > > Carlos Perales
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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