i was yesterday at a custumer site experiencing a crash with excchange 5.5 (less reliable than exchange 2K and 2003; think about it)

they bought xmerge , a backup software and was very angry about it : 1 hour to restore one mailbox (for a total of 100 mailboxes)

i can't advice you too much to get SnapManager for exchange if you want to put exchange 5.5 on the Filer it is a must

you can restore your mail db in 10 second and can take a snapshot every hour for example

very efficient a certainly the best way to avoid a restore that take hours and days (and what if some cartridge could not be read any more because defective of a media...)

hth

exadmin wrote:

Hi all

I am trying to make an argumetn for putting our exchange database (50 gigs) on a filer instead of a windows 2000 box with raid 5 array. We are running Exchange 5.5 Other than the snpshot technology what other benefits will we get with using a filer VS a windows box

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