Overtime? You lean over to your laptop on the coffee table at home connected over the VPN or TS session and select a block of mailboxes and select move mailbox and return to the NCAA basketball game or whatever. An hour later, you select the next block, then take the dog for a walk. Return home, then select the next block and play-wrestle with the wife for awhile. Select the next block, and it's dinnertime.
-----Original Message----- From: Rowell, John (AFIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 12:23 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Moving Exchange 5.5 to new hardware It's fairly poor use of overtime, as I see it, watching mailboxes slowly move between servers. So rather than doing a lot of overtime, over several days, I prefer to do the whole job in one day. And if I'm going to do the job in one day, I prefer the backup & restore method which is quicker, and if you know what you are doing, it is not risky. Actually my method is the off-line copy and quicker still than doing a backup and restore. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tristan Gayford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 03 April 2002 10:16 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Moving Exchange 5.5 to new hardware > > > Why only between 7am and 8am? Surely if you need to move > them, a bit of overtime is in order to limit the downtime to > the users. Plus with only 15GB, it could be easily done in a > weekend with no impact to the end users and as you point out, > would be much less risky. > > Tris > > --------------------------------------------- > Tristan Gayford > Deputy Systems & Network Manager > Cranfield University at Silsoe > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rowell, John (AFIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 03 April 2002 08:52 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Moving Exchange 5.5 to new hardware > > > No, I work 8x5 like the rest of the 4000 staff in my > organization and so opportunities to move mailboxes are in a > small window in the mornings between 7am and 8am, before > users arrive. That does not give a lot of time to move > users, and moving a mailbox of, say, 100 MB can take some > time. Try moving 500 mailboxes with an average of 30 MB each > and I think you'll find it takes longer than a backup and restore. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 28 March 2002 16:57 > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Moving Exchange 5.5 to new hardware > > > > > > Do you work 24x7? Because assuming a 12 hour window on a Friday and > > Saturday night I could probably move around 30-40GB on a LAN and > > actual impact to any single user would likely be only a matter of > > minutes. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Rowell, John (AFIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 8:25 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Moving Exchange 5.5 to new hardware > > > > > > > > > Over 500. > > > > > > Mailboxes can't be moved during working hours.... > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: 26 March 2002 20:12 > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > Subject: RE: Moving Exchange 5.5 to new hardware > > > > > > > > > > > > Months to move? How many mailboxes are we talking here? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Rowell, John (AFIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:32 AM > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > Subject: RE: Moving Exchange 5.5 to new hardware > > > > > > > > > > > > While the Ed Crowley Server Move method is very > > effective, I would > > > > not discount the backup and restore method, where you do > > the whole > > > > move within one day. I've used the Ed Crawley Server > Move method > > > > and it works fine, but the downside is that it can take > months to > > > > move the mailboxes, if you have a lot of them, and if > > they are big. > > > > As a result, recently I used the server move method, and > > had great > > > > success, it was finished in one day and was much cleaner. I > > > > wouldn't say it's that risky, as long as you know how to > > back out of > > > > it. > > > > There are also two types of move, i) using one-line backup & > > > > restore, ii) using off-line backup & restore, and I found the > > > > latter easier. > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > Sent: 25 March 2002 18:14 > > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > > Subject: RE: Moving Exchange 5.5 to new hardware > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
