Our exchange admins say just do not do mailbox backups.

Our exchange folks have increased the length of time that deleted items are
kept to cover most of the need to restore deleted mail with end-user tools.

For older mail, you can do a redirected restore of the database. With
exchange 2003, microsoft makes this easier
 with the redirected restore to the recovery storage group.

len

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Broun, Bevan" <brounb AT adi-limited DOT com>
To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:32 PM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Mailbox backup of exchange server very slow - where to
look?


> Im quite new to veritas NB. We have version 4.5 with MP5.
>
> The server is running on a Solaris 8 box with a compaq MSL5026 containing
2
> SDLT1 drives. Im using the exchange agent. There is a 2nd NIC (100Mb/s) in
> each machine with server and client configured to use this for backups
> (this is working).
>
> Backup speed for the databases goes well at about 8MB/s, probably hitting
> the limit of the network. The backup time for the mailboxes is very slow,
> about 1MB/s when the exchange server is not busy and about 0.5MB/s when
> during the day. How can this be improved?  The exchange server has about
> 50GB of data.
>
> TIA
>
> BB
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