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Anyone?

Has anyone gotten Load Generator Tool (replacement for LoadSim and for mainly 2007 Exchange) working with Exchange 2003? If so, I need the specifics on getting it installed to the exchange server. Mike

I found using a while loop in cygwin appears to work fine. I use the windows tasklist command like: while (` tasklist | grep ntbackup`) { sleep 60; } Just sleeps till job is done, then within a minute moves on to next part of the code/test. Seems to work ok. Mike

Noone has any input as to why Run is not available from the menu in LoadSim after an installation of it? I'm going to deinstall/reinstall it and see if things fall into place or not again.

For doing the information stores, as far as I have seen, yes. For mailboxes usually no.

Hi Karlis, I'll have to write a small perl script and see if it fails to run. I think I may be able to do it or set it to unicode but have to check on that today as time permits. I'm just trying to fully automate it but that just means a longer command line passing in the paths. I'd rather just...

Well, It seems it still requires the file to be in unicode format when saved. If I save it as a text file it kicks up GUI then exits immediately. When I re-save it in unicode format then the GUI stays up and it does its backup. I read on the net that it had to be in unicode format, then saw...

Wow, I feel stupid....lol. I figured it out just now. The filename.bks is just that, not @filename.bks! Once I took it out of the filename itself it all fell into place. God...talk about noobish-ness! HAHAHA, anyways, now that that is resolved I can move foward! Yay! Thanks for the reply! Mike

This is what I am getting in the log(s): The saved selection file "@C:\Sepaton\scripts\exchangebackups.bks" cannot be found Remember, this is being run from a cygwin bash shell on the system in question. All our windows testing runs through cygwin bash shells for our perl scripts. I've tried...

Hi, I tried using ntbackup to backup multiple directories on the same drive but it only takes the first one. I'm doing exchange information store directory backups. I don't know the format of the @file so I figured I should be able to just pass it along the lines of: ntbackup g:\exchange_2007...

Hi, I installed it like on a previous/other installation and I can go to Run menu and select Run Simulation. On this install it isn't showing up as available. I have to do Initialize Test after changing some parameters. Anyone have an idea as to why it isn't available on this installation? I...

I haven't tried that. I usually just rebooted. I don't see why they'd show as protected from the XP standpoint when I believe the XP files from viewing on Vista are all available. But if it's a protection issue/security issue I'll take a look from an XP standpoint and see what is shown and...

Hi Pat, Yes dismounting them would cause downtime. This is a test environment I'm working in. Corporate does their own backups of their server/stores. I am just making sure the data that was backed up/deduped can be restored (mailbox and information store testing, fulls, incrementals, time...

Hi Pat, I'm testing Veritas Netbackup (or Tivoli TSM) backup/restores of the information store(s) that I have created. For 2003 I have first storage group which has mailbox and public folders and second/third storage group which are just additional mailbox databases. Using LoadSim to generate...

Thanks for the info. That was I believe the same site I found months ago but couldn't re-find it. I don't know if it can be called from within perl but I forwarded the page to a coworker who knows vbscript and is doing a lot of perl here so maybe he can come up with something. Thanks again for...