Bobo-Da-Hobo
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Hello All,
We have an exchange cluster of 2 servers, running exchange 6.5.7
They are being backup using TSM 5.5 server using the TDP version 5.5.1.
These are scheduled to perform full backups every Saturday & two hourly incremental backups Monday - Friday.
The problem is that on exchange server one, with 4 databases, the weekly full backup is taking approx. 55 hours to process. (first 3 databases take 25 hours, last database takes up to 30 hours).
I have suggested changing the schedule to run 2 separate backups in parallel.
I thought this would be as simple as updating the existing command file to backup databases 1-3 and a second command to backup database 4
I could then create a second schedule for the same node to use the new command file.
My colleague thinks that we will need to define a new node to backup the db separately, & that we will also need to define an additional cluster resource on the exchange server.
I would appreciate it if any of you could advise on this in case I have missed some glaringly obvious complication from performing it the way I suggested?
Thanks in advance for your time.
We have an exchange cluster of 2 servers, running exchange 6.5.7
They are being backup using TSM 5.5 server using the TDP version 5.5.1.
These are scheduled to perform full backups every Saturday & two hourly incremental backups Monday - Friday.
The problem is that on exchange server one, with 4 databases, the weekly full backup is taking approx. 55 hours to process. (first 3 databases take 25 hours, last database takes up to 30 hours).
I have suggested changing the schedule to run 2 separate backups in parallel.
I thought this would be as simple as updating the existing command file to backup databases 1-3 and a second command to backup database 4
I could then create a second schedule for the same node to use the new command file.
My colleague thinks that we will need to define a new node to backup the db separately, & that we will also need to define an additional cluster resource on the exchange server.
I would appreciate it if any of you could advise on this in case I have missed some glaringly obvious complication from performing it the way I suggested?
Thanks in advance for your time.