Online maintenance, users and backups
Hello
Running Exchange 2007 SP2 on Windows 2008 Server. We are running Single Copy Cluster Exchange servers, Active/ Active/ Passive. Our backups are configured for a FULL on Fridays and incrementals on the other days (to flush the logs)
I remember in Exchange 2000/2003, we configured our backups and online maintenance to avoid conflicting.
Three questions:
1. Is this still the case with Exchange 2007? Or does it not make much of a difference?
2. How does online maintenance affect user experience? We have some departments that access their mailboxes 24/7...not sure how this will work with online maintenance?
3. Am I correct that if online maintenance doesn't finish, this will lead to store growth?
September 25th, 2011 7:31am
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:23:48 +0000, Pancamo wrote:
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>Hello
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>Running Exchange 2007 SP2 on Windows 2008 Server. We are running Single Copy Cluster Exchange servers, Active/ Active/ Passive. Our backups are configured for a FULL on Fridays and incrementals on the other days (to flush the logs)
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>I remember in Exchange 2000/2003, we configured our backups and online maintenance to avoid conflicting.
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>Three questions:
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>1. Is this still the case with Exchange 2007?
Yes.
>Or does it not make much of a difference?
The backup will cause the on-line defrag to stop. If the maintenance
schedule extends beyond the duration of the backup the defrag will
resume.
>2. How does online maintenance affect user experience? We have some departments that access their mailboxes 24/7...not sure how this will work with online maintenance?
It depends on how well your server handles the additional workload. If
they're working in cached mode they might see a little delay in the
delivery of messages, but nothing's going to catch on fire. Just don't
do this during regular working hours.
>3. Am I correct that if online maintenance doesn't finish, this will lead to store growth?
Somewhat. As long as it completes a pass every few days you should be
okay. Scheduling a maintenance period during the day on Saturday or
Sunday long enough to complete a full pass, to gether with the partial
passes during the week, should keep things in check.
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Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
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September 25th, 2011 1:44pm