Veritas Netbackup 6 Exchange Backup

[WebKill]

Hi, we currently do two exchange backups a night, an online backup which consists of the mailboxes and public folders, and an offline backup, which brings the database down and backs up the database. Well the Online backup is getting to take too lone (14+ hours) so I was wanting to suggest we do an information store backup. I tested it and it seems to work great, we get everything, and can restore the whole thing in a DR situation, or individual mailboxes when requested. My question is, are there any downsides to this as opposed to what we are currently doing? Welcoming any thoughts and suggestions!

 

[vijayar]

Hi,

We use the same meathod for backing up Exchange server nad would be the best one, we cant afford downtime and option of cold backup of exchange database is not possible; the current backup plan is working well for us and with the exchange feature of 'Recovery group' its all going well with netbackup.

Vijay

 

[Frbutler]

Though not with NBU I do information store backups for all 4 SG's.

Takes about 4 hours to backup 850gb's to disk

Have not had to do a restore of a DB yet but should work fine

 

[vipinpau]

Hi Webkill,

What backup speeds are you getting for the storage groups?

Thx
Vipin

 

[flavakid]

We backup to disk and stage to tape. In the policy configuration I have single stream per storage group, I have found this helps when stage to tape.

This means staging to tape is faster depending on number tape drive you have. you have set the MAX_STAGING_JOBS accordingly.

 

[Frbutler]

i would imagine that you could get better performance if you were to add a NEW_STREAM to the backup selection for the storage group.

I have 1 job for each SG (8 total) that run concurrently.