Re: Extremely long back up times for Information Store

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The other issue is that your mailbox store is 18GB and you say you have no service Packs applied
You need to get SBS SP1 and Exchange SP2 at a minimum and read up on how to have a larger mailbox store or Exchange is going to crap out
"Claus" <cjobes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OAicbRa%23HHA.4784@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You have a backup of 310GB on top of your Information store. Backing up huge
stuff like that to a USB will take time. You can shorten the time by using
an external drive with FireWire. But even writing that kind of backup to a
fast SCSI would take a considerable amount of time.

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Claus
"John" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OaOwWyZ%23HHA.980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am getting 15 hr backup times for Exchange. I have included my setup and
>part of the NT backup log. I thought that there was something about trend
>causing long backup times but I can't find any articles. If anyone has any
>suggestions I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Setup
>
> Dell 1800 PE
> SBS Standard 2003 no service packs.
> 4 gigs RAM
> Dual Xenon RAID 5 SCSI
> USB 2.0 Drive
> 18 gig Mailbox Store
> Trend CSM 3.5
>
> Log
>
> Backup started on 9/16/2007 at 2:57 PM.
> Backup completed on 9/17/2007 at 6:35 AM.
> Directories: 4144
> Files: 45343
> Bytes: 309,732,842,376
> Time: 15 hours, 37 minutes, and 30 seconds
> Backup of "MAIN\Microsoft Information Store\First Storage Group"
> Backup set #4 on media #1
> Backup description: "Set created 6/19/2007 at 2:38 PM"
> Media name: "Backup Files.bkf created 9/16/2007 at 12:13 PM"
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> John
>
>

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