It's not a technical question, it is a business question. How long can your users in peak time be without email? That will drive your whole backup/restore/DRP program. From that you start working backwards and adjusting your hardware requirements/storage requirements until you get to the time that the business will allow you.
Regards Sander. -----Original Message----- From: Uso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 May 2004 11:38 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: When is an E2K DB too large and I should think about archiving It's planned to move the IS to a SAN (independent of archiving or not). If I split the database into multiple ISs I should be able to restore the corrupted IS in a decent time. At the moment my tape library achived 11Mbyte/sec i.e. 240GB would take 6hours to backup (using a streamed backup using the 2nd drive would increase that time). A restore takes usually more time but with let's say 4 seperate InfoStores that should be in a acceptable range. Or am I mistaken? regards Uso ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sander Van Butzelaar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:48 PM Subject: RE: When is an E2K DB too large and I should think about archiving Mileage may vary, but when I can't backup/restore an exchange db within acceptable (to the business that is) time, then it's too big. Money can buy faster toys, so you'll have to do your sums of what you can afford and what performance it will give you. There really is no right or wrong here. Sander -----Original Message----- From: Uso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 May 2004 10:34 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: When is an E2K DB too large and I should think about archiving Hi, we are at the moment looking at Exchange Archiving solution with the hope to eliminate pst files and give users "unlimited" storage capacity. I was wondering when an exchange database would be considered huge and one should think about archiving solution. Maybe we don't need archving. At the moment the store is 60GB. Assuming we put in all the PSTs lying around on workstations and servers that would grow instantly to 240GB and continue growing from then on. So, what is a large exchange db? Do I really need archiving? thanks regards Uso _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
