Look at the utility "Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Merge Program", EXMERGE.
If you have diskspace over on the mailserver you could run this
application to export the mailboxes to PST files and then do a regular
file backup. The program is fairly easy to set up to run in batch mode.
I have done this on a Exchange 2000 server.

Rgrds,

Rolf Lenneberg

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Matthew Huff
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 6:41 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] exchange 2003 backup of mailboxes

What is your parallelism for these backups set to? Even at 330K/sec, you
should get around 4GB/hour of the backup. We get around 800K/sec doing
bricklevel backups (Exchange 2003, Windows 2003, NW Module 4.1), and
with a parallelization set to 8 we get a pretty decent throughput.

Just for example, I just ran a custom backup with high priority
mailboxes. The backup ran for 22 minutes and backed up 6 mailboxes with
a total of 4,437 MB. This was running during the day with simultaneous
access.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Watkins
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:03 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] exchange 2003 backup of mailboxes
> 
>  
> Well our Solaris 9 server takes 6 hours to backup only 55 mailboxes on

> a windows
> 2003 server .
>       Processed 169466 items 6989 MB  in 5:46:27  344338 bytes/second
> 
> I would give up my job if we put all are users to exchange!!!
> 
> I only do it now and then but how can we backup up the Mailboxes?
> 
> > I was surprised to hear that anybody is using NetWorker to
> do mailbox
> > backups, it's far too slow for us to use - our setup is NW
> server 7.1.2.
> > under Solaris 8, Exchange 2000 (400 mailboxes) and NME 4.0.1 under 
> > Win2k.
> > 
> > Can I ask how many mailboxes you back up?
> > 
> > Does anyone else do mailbox backups?
> 
> 
> Andrew
> 
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