Do part of any of your recommendations work in scenarios where the backup is done just by protecting the Exchange Databases in a DAG setup? I’m trying to find information about performance improvement but the backup is not done with the mailbox agent. Moreover, we are about to change another backup software for Commvault, they have severe performance problems (copying just the databases) and I try to avoid getting into a trap.
So, I need 2 things:
1), understand how to improve speed
2) Define some sets of measurements or tests so the evaluation of our solution is fair and we don’t get tangled in other’s problems (I see lots of info in your post about Microsoft produced best practices that I will study).
Thanks!
JP
Best answer by Chris
@Juampa
For a DAG backup we rely heavily on the hardware/infrastructure of the environment.
Normally best practice would be to backup from the passive copies to avoid high I/O usage on an active exchange database.
However a few things you can do to help improve the performance are below:
