Excessive time to backup

[Conny_Lindquist]

First, sorry for making a second thread so quickly, but I didnt want to include this one in my first question.

When I make a backup of our exchange 5.5 server it takes extreamly long time. All other servers (file servers) goes reasonbly fast but not the e-mail server.

I can understand that going through all the mailboxex checking each mail to see if its new or not might take a little while. Our database is about 60GB large and we got about 1400 users on it.

But 16 hours? Is that normal? We got a fast backup robot so it cant be the tapes slowing it down. I shuffle 160GB in about 1 and a half hour from disk to tape.

Anyway I just wanna check if others have the same time frame in backups as we do at the same size of db as we have.

I also get a lot of corrupt files (about 2500) each time we backup the e-mail server. I guess that could be related to the fact that we dont use Advanced Open Files option.

Regards
Conny

[Renuka_-]

Hello,
A mailbox backup is a bricklevel backup and generally takes long, even as compared to the information store backup. For the corrupt files please refer:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/258888

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[Ken_Putnam]

Also see

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/235354.htm for Veritas take on what is an "acceptable" throughput for brick-level backups

[Conny_Lindquist]

Thanx fellas for that... it gave me an idea about how it should work. Then my backups are "ok" so to speak.