John,

I have yet to encounter a problem restoring an Exchange Database with the
Adsm Connect Agent.
Let me take that back.. we have had problems but not related to the Connect
Agent and I've restored well over 50 Exchange databases so far - either for
the purpose of mailbox restore or for loss of server.

I'm still trying to work out however why our recoveries take much longer
than the backup.

When backing up straight to tape we reach about 30Gb/hr, however restore is
about 15Gb/hr.
That's a pefectly acceptable restore rate but I'm curious as to the dramatic
loss of speed.

I understand that you are going to loose some speed because you are writing
data rather than reading it.
Our Exchange Servers also have write cacheing disabled to improve
reliability - this also slows down a restore - enabling write cacheing
boosted the restore up to almost 18Gb/hr.

I still can't believe that restores are giving half the throughput of the
backup. I've a feeling it's a network tuning parameter on our Rs/6000.
Anyone any ideas?

Nathan



        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Talafous, John G. [SMTP:Talafous AT TIMKEN DOT COM]
        Sent:   Friday, July 23, 1999 6:54 AM
        To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
        Subject:        Recovery of Exchange - was: backing up Exchange

        It's nice to see success stories regarding backup of Exchange with
the
        Connect Agent.
        Does anyone wish to share success stories on the recovery process?
How easy
        is
        it?  Hardware considerations? Any gotchas?

        John G. Talafous                         Sr. Tech. Prog/Anal
        The Timken Company                 Phone: (330)-471-3390
        P.O. Box 6927                           Fax  : (330)-471-4034
        1835 Dueber Ave. S.W.
        Canton, Ohio USA  44706-0927
        talafous AT timken DOT com     http://www.timken.com/