Thats exactly what I did; worked like a charm! Especially the play-wrestle
with my wife!
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
Albert Camus (1913-1960); French writer and philosopher
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Lefkovics" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 4:38 AM
Subject: RE: Moving Exchange 5.5 to new hardware
> 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
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
>
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