How big is your exchange database? A consistency check on one of my client’s databases, 90 GB, takes about 50 minutes.
The parameter you are referring to is primarily for controlling WHERE you take a backup in a DAG environment (passive, active, or both). See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876851.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Windows Server Backup and Exchange 2010 All: I have an single Exchange 2010 STD with Update Rollup 3 installed on a Windows 2008 SP2 VM on vSphere ESX 4. I attempted to run a Windows Server Backup but the process was stuck on the Consistency check for Exchange.I waited for about 15 minutes until i cancelled the job to do some research. I followed the following steps here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876854.aspx and found the following forum post here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/exchange2010/thread/88adaae6-2930-4785-a85f-9ae4d837eca2 In short, there is a post at the above forum that indicates to enable the following key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\v14\Replay\Parameters] Create new: "EnableVSSWriter"=dword:00000000 My question is, will the above key disable VSS functionality all together ? I plan on introducing Symantec BE 2010, will it also break BE's, or any VSS-reliant/aware app's ability to run a backup of Exchange? Thanks, Harry.
