I am on this whole "DEFRAG YOUR SERVER HDs KICK" so forgive me if you
see that part of my response a lot.

When I ran a report on our fairly new Exchange server Executive software
said the drive was defragged 10014% LOL horrible math and it (ES
program) promised that performance was degraded over 400%.

Well I ran an online defrag which took almost 10 hours, ran it the
second time it took 20 minutes the third time defrag was done
immediately...

My backup time was cut by almost 2 hours. /shrug Although it is not the
cure for everything it is a performance help...Defrags work! /ALE 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Coxe
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:29 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] exchange 2003 backup of mailboxes - 
> slooowwww.....
> 
> Vince Howard wrote
>  > Hi Hans,
>  >
>  > I was surprised to hear that anybody is using NetWorker to 
> do mailbox  > backups, it's far too slow for us to use - our 
> setup is NW server 7.1.2.
>  > under Solaris 8, Exchange 2000 (400 mailboxes) and NME 
> 4.0.1 unde Win2k.
>  > Can I ask how many mailboxes you back up?
>  > Does anyone else do mailbox backups?
> 
> Hans Ericson replied:
>  > Hello Vince,
>  >
>  > OK, here are some facts on the installation: Yes, we do MB 
> backup once every  > week. 807 mailboxes is backed up and it 
> takes about 22 hours. The whole  > exchange db is about 39 GB.
> ----------------------------
> 
> Wow, 1.7gb/hour - a reverse speed record :(
> 
> This caught my eye, as I've seen the same problem with 
> Exchange since embarking down that road 6 months ago :( 
> Migrating from a iPlanet Msg.
> Server environment where  backus were never an issue (no 
> issues, except from Outlook whiners, oh how I miss iPMS & 
> Corporate Time), it's quite disconcerting.
> 
> I too have dropped back to weekly-only mailbox backups.
> 
> Is slow mailbox backups a Legato issue only or more 
> widespread? As I understand it the Legato module uses an 
> Exchange utility to perform the job (showing my Unix-centric 
> Windows ignorance). How lame. If just Legato, then how are 
> folks backing up individual mailboxes? Using another product?
> What are the better alternatives. What's the best strategy? 
> How can this happen in 2005?
> 
>   - michael
> 
> -- 
>    Michael Coxe, IT
>    <mcoxe AT opsware DOT com>
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