That will probably prove useful. I'll make note of that during the conversations we have.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 13:29, Sobey, Richard A <r.so...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > PF replication will always take a lesser precedent to normal mail traffic, > and you can configure it to happen out of hours, if any such things exists in > your company. > > You might also have the luxury - depending on costs and how much time you > have - of setting up an Exchange PF store on a new server locally, > replicating your PFs to it, then shipping it off somewhere. > > Cheers :) > > ________________________________________ > From: bounce-8549838-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com > [bounce-8549838-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > [kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: 28 May 2009 19:48 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: PF replication, latency and archiving > > All, > > We're implementing SEA here, and have three offices - one here in the > US, one in the UK and one in AU. The latency between offices for data > transfer is pretty huge, as you might expect, with the further > handicap that the UK office has a consumer grade DSL connection of > 768/128. > > To illustrate the problem, a robocopy of about 35gb from the US office > to the AU office took nearly two weeks - and they have a 2mb SDSL > connection. > > The AU office has about 30gb in mailboxes and 3gb in PFs, the UK > office has about 42gb in mailboxes and 21gb in PFs. > > Only some of the PFs are replicated to the US office - I don't know > how exactly many at the moment, but it's probably fewer than half. > > Questions: > 1) Do any of you have a similar situation with latency? If so, how > does SEA perform for you? > > 2) I think it makes sense to replicate all foreign office PFs to the > US office, on the theory that SEA will pull replicas locally, and that > native Exchange replication will be gentler on bandwidth consumption > than SEA. Can anyone confirm or disconfirm this theory? > > > Any thoughts on this welcome... > > Kurt > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
