Hi Tom, are the Exchange servers virtualized on vSphere? On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 12:55 AM, Tom Alverson <tom.alver...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > We are trying to speed up our Exchange backups that are currently only > using about 15% of the network bandwidth. Our servers are running Windows > 2012R2 and Exchange 2013 CU15 with TSM 7.1.0.1 and TDPEXC 7.1.0.1. > Currently we are backing up 15 DAGS per Exchange server (we have multiple > exchange servers) and we are only backing up on servers that are standby > replicas. Currently we are trying a 14 day schedule were we do a full > backup of a different DAG per day, and incrementals on the rest. Even > doing this we are having trouble completing them in 24 hours (before the > next day's backup is supposed to start). > > I saw an old posting from Del saying to increase RESOURCEUTILIZATION on the > DSMAGENT. Does that mean the DSM.OPT in the BACLIENT folder? It was set > at 2. Do either the buffers or buffrsize options make any difference? > > Also if we want to "parallelize" the backups does that mean separate > scheduler services for each one? We currently use 14 different batch files > (for the 14 days of the cycle) with something like this: > > [day1.bat] > > tdpexcc.exe backup dag1 full > tdpexcc.exe backup dag2,dag3,dag4,dag5 incr > tdpexcc.exe backup dag6,dag7,dag8,dag9 incr > tdpexcc.exe backup dag10,dag11,dag12,dag13 incr > tcpexcc.exe backup dag14,dag15 incr > exit >