[Veritas-bu] Exchange 5.5 Mailbox Question

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System: Windows 2000 w/NetBackup DataCenter 4.5.3

Library: STK L40 w/4 320 SDLT drives

 

Question:  I am currently backing up 700+ mailboxes on an Exchange 5.5
server.   I have Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes:\* under pathname or
directories within the policy.  Media multiplexing is set to 20, so roughly
80 mailboxes can be backed up simultaneously.  This has cut my Exchange
backups times down from 8 hours to 2.5.    In a disaster situation I would
just recover the whole database and catalog files.  

 

Pros: Faster backup times, Faster restore times of individual mailboxes. 

 

Cons: Larger catalog, slower catalog backups, Locating the mailbox to be
restored takes longer.

 

My question is, are there additional cons/downfall that I am not thinking
of?  I want to make sure I am not doing more harm to my system than needed.

 

Is anyone else doing this?

 

Your comments are appreciated.


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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>System: Windows 2000 w/NetBackup DataCenter 
4.5.3</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Library: STK L40 w/4 320 SDLT drives</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Question:&nbsp; I am currently backing up 700+ mailboxes on
an Exchange 5.5 server.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes:\* under
pathname or directories within the policy.&nbsp; Media multiplexing is set to
20, so roughly 80 mailboxes can be backed up simultaneously. &nbsp;This has cut
my Exchange backups times down from 8 hours to 2.5.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;In a
disaster situation I would just recover the whole database and catalog
files.&nbsp; </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Pros: Faster backup times, Faster restore times of
individual mailboxes. </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cons: Larger catalog, slower catalog backups, Locating the
mailbox to be restored takes longer.</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My question is, are there additional cons/downfall that I am
not thinking of?&nbsp; I want to make sure I am not doing more harm to my
system than needed.</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Is anyone else doing this?</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Your comments are appreciated.</span></font></p>

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