53 hours? Are you doing mailbox level backups? Why not start creating additional storage groups and new stores within and start moving mailboxes to even things out? You can create 4 SGs of 5 DBs for each server.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 10:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Whomping big information store The company I'm at (about 3500 people) dedicated 1TB on a SAN for Exchange 2003 Enterprise information stores. Sadly, size limits are not enforced and predictably, the primary store has grown to about 800Gb. The other one is about 150Gb. It was a pretty steady 400-ish gigs until a lawsuit forced us to turn off grooming, deletion and such, so now, a couple months later, it's about doubled, as have all the usual problems of having huge stores. For instance backups are being done with Veritas to DLT and taking 53 hours, logs sometimes don't get cleared in time and fill up the log volume. Disaster recovery is a horrifying thought right now since we don't have space. What are the recommended methods to break stores up into smaller, more manageable pieces? If someone can point me to websites or docs, that would be great (currently reading: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msit/operations/msgbrtcs.ms px). I'm not the email admin, although I might end up doing that work....I ordered a disaster recovery server with a lot of disk space so we can manipulate the database files, hopefully re-work our information stores, the backup process and some of the architecture, and I'm hoping the good people here can point me to references for a solid re-design. I used to read this list religiously back in 99...I remember when Ed coined "PST = BAD" and the reasons were only in the dozens. Thanks, Steve _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ 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. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ 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.
