Hi Marcel,
        I asked this same question once, too. Exchange Brick level backups
use the MAPI interface to backup, and thus do not perform extremely well
(MAPI is really designed so clients can access e-mail, not as a backup
interface). The best method to optimize your brick level backups is to break
them up into more streams. The more parrallelism, the better. But the best
thing to do is dump brick level all together, and just do information store
backups. Create a recovery storage group in Exchange to restore your IS to if
you need to pull from backups, and increase the amount of time deleted
e-mails are kept before being cleaned from your information store. The last
part will give your users more time to restore deleted items themselves. 

Matt

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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Drunen van,
Marcel
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:18
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exchange backup performance


All,

My Exchange brick-level backup takes ages to complete. What sort of
performance do you get on brick-level and are there any quick-and-dirty ways
to improve this?

TNX,

Marcel van Drunen

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