Re: what will happen mailstore reaching to 100GB or 200GB ??

From: Craig Philbeck [MSFT] (a-cphil_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/06/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:30:14 -0500

Online maintenance as well as backup and restore time can become an issue.
Since you have enterprise version you might want to consider additional
stores/storage groups with smaller databases.

Craig 

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"Rich Matheisen [MVP]" <richnews@rmcons.com.NOSPAM.COM> wrote in message
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> "J.H" <jpthsd@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >We have single exchange 2k ent. server. Single storage group, single
> >mailstore,
> >will be any problem if the priv1.edb, priv1.stm ..etc file belong to
> >exchange 2k db
> >reaching to 100GB or 200GB ?
>
> Yeah . . . it'll take a really long time to restore it.
>
> >We have physical storage up to 500GB on the
> >server.
>
> Why just one database?
>
> >Any idea will be appreciated!!!!
>
> Figure out how long you want to be down if you have a database
> problem. Then size the databases accordingly.
>
> Keep in mind that the replaying of the log files can take quite a bit
> of time. Using multiple storage groups can help (sometimes) with this
> by reducing the total number of log files that need to be replayed to
> bring a SG back on-line.
>
> The 1st 100 log files replay pretty fast because the IS builds a table
> to keep track of things. But once that table fills the replay time per
> log file slows down considerably.
>
> -- 
> Rich Matheisen
> MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
> MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm

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