Do you mean ‘how long does it take to copy all mailboxes from one server to another?’ If so that’s going to depend on many factors, not the least of which is connectivity between the boxes.
If you mean how long to restore from tape, you’re typically looking at about 7.5 Gigs per hour, plus an hour to decide you actually need to do a restore (in my experience folks troubleshoot and debate the need to restore for at least one hour before the restore is kicked off). So a 40 GB PRIV would take roughly 6 hours plus one for the lead in.
This is assuming a pretty conventional recovery plan, meaning regular full backups and whatnot. There are other ways to approach backup and restore depending on how big your budget is!
On 10/24/04 9:11 AM, "Blair, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To to the amazinly diverse audience out there: I am putting together a disaster recovery procedure and was wondering how long it would take to restore mailboxes directly from the database to an aleternate e-mail server. Is there any baselines out there or does anyone have any personal experience? Lets say database is 40GB...
James
