[Veritas-bu] Advanced Client Backup For Exchange

We are trying to implement a new backup design for our current Exchange 2003 environment. Today, we use standard network based backups over the LAN and do daily full backups using NetBackup 6.5.4. With a project to expand our current mailbox quotas for our Field clients, we needed an improved backup option for performance and application/server impact. We are implementing offhost backups using Netbackup’s advanced client with snapshots that integrate with Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and HDS’s Shadow Image. Our testing went pretty good but we are now in production on a subset of servers and are seeing multiple issues with VSS going into a failed state.

It looks like there have been multiple issues with VSS on W2K3 servers in the past and we do have a few patches to apply. I am hoping to hear from someone that has tried something similar, any best practices, is there a way to get VSS to multi-thread, any tips/tricks/gotcha’s? I’m wondering if VSS is truly enterprise capable of handling multiple 250 GB Information Stores.

TIA

Brian

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