Re: SBS backupwizard & hardware compression

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Hello Kevin,

I had not considered outlook task manager but that is great idea. As for the
compression feature that one is not automatically being set. I can back up
more than 20 gigs with the manual backups but using the wizard it runs to 20
and quits, I had to go into the job an deselect a bunch of stuff just to get
the job to fit within 20 gigs.. It's a Dell server and the tape drive is
what ever they supplied, the backups see thedrive fine and compression works
with manual jobs just not the wizard. I just don't see anything I would have
missed, the wizard makes it pretty simple.

Thanks
Doug Leece

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"Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" <kweilbacMVP@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OygdV6hDGHA.1180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> if your tape backup device has hardware compression, then it will be used
by
> SBS.
>
> you are correct that the SBS tape backup wizard essentially does two
> different backups of the Exchange database, on purpose, in order to allow
> for the correct recovery of Exchange depending on the cause of the crash.
>
> unfortunately, the SBS tape backup wizard does not allow for customizing
> what it backs up or for going to a second tape drive. To do those, you
would
> need to create a custom backup script routine and schedule it manually.
> Things like auto reminders are nice, but can easily be mimic'd using an
> Outlook task reminder.
>
> --
> Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
> "The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
>
>
> "Doug Leece" <dleece@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OMcl36cDGHA.2956@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have looked for this in a few spots now but no luck. I have a client
> > with
> > SBS and a 20gig tape drive. The drive supports hardware compression and
> > you
> > can create a backup with hardware comp easily using the normal NT
backup
> > GUI. The client read that Exchange backup is more readily restored if
you
> > use the SBS backup wizard but it takes almost double the tape.
> > Unfortunatly
> > there seems to be a known issue with the SBS wizard failing when a
second
> > tape is needed. All the data would fit on one tape if we could enable
> > hardware compression in SBS wizard backups but that option is not
> > avaliable.The client likes the other stuff like auto reminders for tape
> > changes, easy to find logs etc so they would like touse the SBS bacup
> > wizard
> > method if possible.
> >
> > Is there a registry setting I can set to enable the wizard to use
> > compression or reliably take a second tape?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Doug Leece
> >
> >
>
>


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