Thank you all for your response, I'll try the move mailbox.
Regards
Sander
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 26 September 2001 01:53
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: Move Mailbox Transfer Rate
I agree with missy
----- Original Message -----
From: "missy koslosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: Move Mailbox Transfer Rate
> Exmerge will kill his single instance storage, and his 40GB database
> will end up at almost 50GB if he's got only a 1.2:1 ratio. I'd try
> moving the mailboxes in chunks of 50-100 at a time, and ensure that
> it's done from
the
> receiving server's Admin program for efficiency.
>
> I'd guess that this can be done in 2-3 working days, without overtime.
Just
> let the users know that their mailboxes may be "temporarily
> inaccessible" and that their access should be resolved in 20-30
> minutes (it should take less per mailbox, but you always look good
> when things take less time than you've said...).
>
> Missy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Corbett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Move Mailbox Transfer Rate
>
>
> Sander,
>
> Any reason you think that exmerge will bring along corrupted messages
> ? Since Exmerge is essentially copying the message from the mailbox
> store to the .PST file, a corrupted message will cause Exmerge to
> hiccup.
>
> We had major store corruption some time ago, approx 600 of the 1600
> mailboxes wouldn't move via the Exchange Administration tool due to
> corruption. Exmerge allowed those mailboxes to be successfully moved.
Simply
> looking at the exmerge log file, deleting the offending message(s)
> from
the
> mailbox allowed the migration to occur in most cases.
>
> We have also used Exmerge doing only the first phase of the migration
> (extracting to .PST file), in order to determine which mailboxes were
> corrupt. Have done this a few days ahead of a migration to determine
> those mailboxes which will have to be manually moved. This allowed us
> to
expedite
> those mailboxes with no detected corruption, and focus our efforts on
those
> mailboxes that were having problems.
>
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:00 PM
> Subject: Move Mailbox Transfer Rate
>
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > I know one should not generalise and each system is different. I
> > acknowledge these two factors, but does anyone have any stats on the
> > average transfer speed they obtained while doing a move mailbox. The
> > servers in question are not in my site so I cannot quickly run a
> > test.
The
> > servers are on a 100 MB switch.The total mail store is approx 40 GB.
> > I would like to calculate an approx time needed to move mailboxes
> > this
way,
> > exmerge is not an option as the original store has corruptions in
> > it. I need to check after each mailbox if the new store is still
> > consistent.
> >
> > Any info is appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> > Sander
> >
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