>>mailbox backups take about 20-30 hours.  Because of that I only do a mailbox 
>>backup once a month.

 

Why not run daily incrementals in between full mailbox backups?  My Exchange 
restore requests are always at the message level anyway.

 

-Neil

 

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From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces 
at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Day
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 4:03 PM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Exchange 2003 Mailbox Backups

 

We've just upgraded our Exchange server and one of the improvements was to 
split the information store into 3 storage groups (only 2 contain data that 
needs to be backed up though).  Each storage group has 2 stores.  Does anyone 
have any suggestions on how I can use this to improve my mailbox backup 
performance?  An Information store backup of about 95GB takes about 45 minutes. 
 The mailbox backups take about 20-30 hours.  Because of that I only do a 
mailbox backup once a month.  I was thinking about trying concurrent backups 
... but the Exchange administrator does not think we'll get any better 
throughput but what if I backup up one store every weekend?  How would I 
address that store in the policy?  I use 5.1 MP4 and currently the Mailbox 
backup policy Directive set is set to MS_Exchange_2000 and the Pathname or 
directive is Microsoft Exchange Mailboxes:\.  

 

Thanks,

Mike Day

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