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John_Santana
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9 years ago
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Preparation steps & process before bulk exporting archived Exchange mailboxes to USB HDD ?

People,

I'm planning to export all of my Exchange Archived mailbox from EV v11.1 into the large USB drive as .PST file.

I assume the exported maiblox will be (email alias name).pst file:

  1. Do I have to prepare any steps or maintenance task to expedite the export process ? eg. SQL offline maintenance, defrag, etc...
  2. is there any limit of the number of exported mailbox tasks in EV v11.1 ?

Any kind of help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

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  • CConsult's avatar
    CConsult
    9 years ago

    Hi,

    do you mean all of your company's Pst files?

    1. No you do not need to prepare anything but file access to whereever you want to export to. And if you didn't use PST Migration before you need to configure a PST holding folder (Site properties).

    2. You should limit the parallel export. As far as I know the best rates where with 3-7 parallel exports. Depending on how your system is build.

  • Massimo_Vagli's avatar
    Massimo_Vagli
    Level 4
    9 years ago

    Hello John, 

    It would be nice to also execute an "EVSVR - Verify - Complete" before the actual export to .PST

    Massimo

     

    • John_Santana's avatar
      John_Santana
      Level 6
      9 years ago

      Massimo_Vagli, so how and where to find that stored procedure named "EVSVR - Verify - Complete" ?

      I've never aware of that SQL stored procedure before.

      • Massimo_Vagli's avatar
        Massimo_Vagli
        Level 4
        9 years ago

        John_Santana 

        EVSVR is not a stored procedure in SQL Server, EVSVR is an Enterprise Vault utility to check the vault store partitions health.

        Check the utilities.pdf documentation for further details

        Massimo



  • CConsult's avatar
    CConsult
    Moderator
    9 years ago

    Hi,

    do you mean all of your company's Pst files?

    1. No you do not need to prepare anything but file access to whereever you want to export to. And if you didn't use PST Migration before you need to configure a PST holding folder (Site properties).

    2. You should limit the parallel export. As far as I know the best rates where with 3-7 parallel exports. Depending on how your system is build.

    • John_Santana's avatar
      John_Santana
      Level 6
      9 years ago

      CConsult Yes, all of them, there are 18TB+ and almost 2000 archived mailboxes in total.

      As for the parallel export, does it means I need to select just maximum 7 mailboxes per export wizard / per day ?

      Do I need to add some more vRAM and vCPU to the EV Virtual Machine ?
      At the moment it is 4x vCPU & 16 GB vRAM

      • CConsult's avatar
        CConsult
        Moderator
        9 years ago

        Hi,

        by parellel exports I mean, that you can start more then one export wizard at a time.

        Open 3-4 Export Wizards at the same time to optimize your export speed.

        You can start with 3-4 Exports with your config, for each EV Server.