We always back up exchange while it is still active for several reasons.
Mostly because the backups trim the exchange logs after each backup.
I'd also say we are happy with the restore times. The nice thing about
exchange is the stores are just really big files. This makes for very fast
backup and restores and keeps your adsm/tsm database really small unlike the
Notes agent. Restores generally take about the same amount of time as full
backups do. The part that takes the longest is the rebuilding of the new or
replacement server. I am not involved in that part but I've seen them do it
several times now. It seems to have some pitfalls. There were no glitches
with ADSM, only things that had to be done on the exchange side once the
data was back.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Glassman - Admin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange
Seems that a lot of you are happy with the exchange backup.
So let me ask if I may :
1. Do you backup Exchange while active or do you shut down the services
prior to backup ?
2. How many of you have had to restore your whole Exchange from backup, and
how long did it take, and did it work fully or were there any glitches that
had to be retouched to get it all running ?
Thanks,
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Palmadesso Jack [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: á ðåáîáø 13 2000 22:55
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS
> Exchange
>
> I'd have to say we are happy also. We have over 18 exchange servers with
> 10
> to 30 gig dbs. All 18 incremental finish well within 2 hours each day.
> Full backups take 1 to 4 hours each depending on the load on our AIX ADSM
> server. All Exchange backups are done over gigabit Ethernet. One
> drawback
> is Microsoft's lack of an API that allows message extraction from the
> backups. We have a mixed Notes/Exchange mail environment. The Notes
> users
> still enjoy the ability to restore deleted messages long after they were
> "accidentally" removed. Exchange users have a 15 day deleted item
> retention
> period they have to go by.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Talafous, John G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 2:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange
>
>
> Very happy! We have nine (9) MS Exchange servers with 35GB information
> stores. Our backup window is 2 hours and TDP for MSExchange does this
> just
> fine. Of course, you have to consider the infrastructure here (Gigabit
> Ethernet). All in all, it works well and the Exchange admins are happier
> with TSM than they were with Veritas.
>
> John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal
> The Timken Company Global Software Support
> P.O. Box 6927 Data Management
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 11:56 AM
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> Subject: Re: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS Exchange
>
>
> happy with it,
>
> backuping 4-5 GB(hour), our main exchange server has a 17 GB database. 2
> others have about 12 GB database.
>
> René Lambelet
> Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefan Holzwarth [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 5:47 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Your experience with Tivoli Data Protection for MS
> Exchange
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > we intend to use the tivoli agent for exchange, but have no experience
> > regarding
> > performance (backup & restore), easyness, robustness ....
> >
> > Because of the importance of the exchange environment we are looking for
> > reference installations and we want to know of your experiences.
> >
> > Our environment:
> > - 2 * MS exchange server 5.5 (10GB/30GB)
> > - network (tokenring&atm backbone)
> > - 3.7 NT-clients
> > - 3.7.3.6 TSM Server on MVS
> > -2 * 3590 Tapelibraries
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your input
> > Stefan Holzwarth
> >
> >
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