Hi Tom, are the Exchange servers virtualized on vSphere?

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 12:55 AM, Tom Alverson <tom.alverson AT gmail DOT com>
wrote:

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> > We are trying to speed up our Exchange backups that are currently only
> using about 15% of the network bandwidth.  Our servers are running Windows
> 2012R2 and Exchange 2013 CU15 with TSM 7.1.0.1 and TDPEXC 7.1.0.1.
> Currently we are backing up 15 DAGS per Exchange server (we have multiple
> exchange servers) and we are only backing up on servers that are standby
> replicas.  Currently we are trying a 14 day schedule were we do a full
> backup of a different DAG per day, and incrementals on the rest.  Even
> doing this we are having trouble completing them in 24 hours (before the
> next day's backup is supposed to start).
>
> I saw an old posting from Del saying to increase RESOURCEUTILIZATION on the
> DSMAGENT.  Does that mean the DSM.OPT in the BACLIENT folder?  It was set
> at 2.  Do either the buffers or buffrsize options make any difference?
>
> Also if we want to "parallelize" the backups does that mean separate
> scheduler services for each one?  We currently use 14 different batch files
> (for the 14 days of the cycle) with something like this:
>
> [day1.bat]
>
> tdpexcc.exe backup dag1 full
> tdpexcc.exe backup dag2,dag3,dag4,dag5 incr
> tdpexcc.exe backup dag6,dag7,dag8,dag9 incr
> tdpexcc.exe backup dag10,dag11,dag12,dag13 incr
> tcpexcc.exe backup dag14,dag15 incr
> exit
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