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We are in the same boat here but, even worse, the customer has 'chosen'
to store all of the .PST files on a shared NetApp FAS drive, something
not officially supported by Microsoft. Supposedly this was only going to
be a temporary solution until implementation of something called
Symantec Enterprise Vault. However, the $1M price tag on that is now
a problem and we have been asked the implications of continuing to do
these backups as we do now, given a 1TB/year growth rate.

Currently, we are backing up around 400GB/night out of 2TB of .PSTs and
were going to setup a test of subfile backup early next week.  I too
would be interested in any limitations to this scheme.  If there is a
.PST larger than 2GB, is it backed up normally?

Thanks
Sam Sheppard
San Diego Data Processing Corp.
(858)-581-9668
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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:41:56 -0500
From: "Paul Zarnowski" <psz1 AT CORNELL DOT EDU>
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up PST files using dynamic subfile and OFS
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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Greetings...

We are starting to use Exchange and Outlook here, and now we need to figure
out how to backup PST files..  I know there has been some discussion of
this in the past on this list, and I have researched this.  Here's our problem.

We have a client constituency who will be running Outlook on systems, some
of which are connected sporadically (laptops) and/or over slower speed
network connections.

It seems that Open File Support (OFS) can be used to successfully back up
PST files, which is good.  We'd like to also use dynamic subfile backup on
the systems that are connected via slower networks.   The problem is that
subfile backups have a 2GB filesize limit, and PST files can grow >2GB.  Is
anyone else faced with this challenge?  If so, how are you addressing it?

Thanks.
..Paul


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Paul Zarnowski                            Ph: 607-255-4757
Manager, Storage Services                 Fx: 607-255-8521
719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801    Em: psz1 AT cornell DOT edu

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