Stan, I'm not an Exchange expert, but we do Exchange restores all the
time, and no, it's not normal to sit that long.  We use Exchange 2003
with Legato Exchange 4.x. 

The only question I would ask is that the restore server - is it a
member in the same Exchange Site?  I remember us having some problems
when the restore server was in a different Exchange site (I think "site"
is the proper Exchange terminology).   

Hope that helps.   

David M. Browning Jr.
LSUHSC Enterprise Network Operations/Help Desk


-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 10:08 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Exchange restore

We are new to Exchange and the Exchange module.

My NetWorker server is Power Edition 7.2.1 on Solaris 9 and I have a  
question regarding recovering Exchange 2003 data with the version 5  
Exchange module.

The Exchange server's set of data weighs in at around 100GB and it  
only hosts around 100 users. We are trying to recover a small storage  
group to a recover storage group for testing purposes. The storage  
group we tried to recover is around 28GB and after selecting that  
group in the NetWorker Exchange GUI and requesting the recover, it  
just sat there for a couple of hours and we finally killed it off so  
we could run our nightly backup.

We are trying this recover again now and it has been sitting for 45  
minutes with no apparent activity. The most recent message says  
"opening restore session with the NetWorker Server" which appeared 45  
minutes ago. The same screen says I can check the xbsa.messages file  
for progress information, but that file has not been updated.

NetWorker is not requesting a tape mount. All I see on the console is  
the client browsing.

Is it normal for a modest amount of data to take so long to recover?

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