It sounds like you're doing a <gasp> brick backup? (each mailbox individually?)
If so, you should check the archives (look down) for a lot of reasons why you don't want to do it that way. If not...are you using BackupExec's Exchange agent to perform on-line backups? Aloha, -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP-Outlook, CNA, MCPx3 Director of Information Services Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert http://www.hawaiilawyer.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Steck, Steffen M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:24 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Backup > > > Hi there, > I am having probs with the backup of my XCNG 5.5 Sp4 on > NT4Sp6. I have a priv.edb of approximately 23 GB size. > Besides is only the OS and little more (antivirus etc) on the > machine. The machine itself is a P3 Xeon with 500 Mhz and 512 > MB RAM. It has an DLT 80 and uses backup software Veritas > Backup Exec Multiserver 7.3. The problem: The backup of the > Exchange Mailboxes lasts 12 hours, the whole filesystem (27 > GB) is being taped in half an hour. Why does take so long to > read out the mailboxes of the information store? Anybody seen > this or any idea? Thx in advance Steffen > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

