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by jspaz

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I am running Exchange Server 2000 and regularly back up the Information Store to a second disk on the exchange server using the Microsoft Backup utility included in Windows 2000 server. I have 35 users on the server and the backup file is approx. 900 MB. I run the backup in off hours and everything seems to be working fine. The backup usually takes 45 minutes to an hour, but occasionally will run in 6 to 8 minutes. The output file size looks good and the log shows no errors. Does anyone know what might account for the variance?

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by dynamo2003

The variance might have occured due to backing up of open file. Check the log files to compare how many open files are present during respective backups.

by jgtyler

I don't have an answer for the variation, but I'm told that Microsofts Backup utility will not backup your Exchange server correctly, you need to use a third party product such as Arcserve or BackupExec to backup your Information Store.

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