Backup strategy for large mailbox stores

[John Madden]

Vincent Fox wrote:
> I suppose replication and snapshots are out of the question for you?

Replication is something we haven't gotten into yet but there's probably 
something there.  We don't have a remote site, so there's no way to make 
that work in a DR/backup sense.

We did quite a bit with snapshots (LVM) to when we were experimenting 
with block-level backups but there's a performance problem there -- we 
were saturating GbE.  Snapshot doesn't really buy you anything in terms 
of getting the data to tape.




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John Madden
Sr UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
jmadden at ivytech.edu