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The following are some best practices or recommendations we strongly recommend you follow before you start any Exchange Server 2016 Mail Level backup and restore.
Example-1: There are 100 mailboxes that need to be backup, you can divide 20 mailboxes into one backup set.
Backup Set Name | Mailbox Number |
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Backup-Set-1 | No.1 – 20 |
Backup-Set-2 | No.21 – 40 |
Backup-Set-3 | No.41 – 60 |
Backup-Set-4 | No.61 – 80 |
Backup-Set-5 | No.81 – 100 |
If there are new mailboxes added, you can create new backup set for the new mailboxes.
Example-2: There are 100 mailboxes that needs to be backup, you can divide mailboxes into backup sets in alphabetic order.
Backup Set Name | Mailbox Name Start with |
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Backup-Set-1 | A – E |
Backup-Set-2 | F – J |
Backup-Set-3 | K – O |
Backup-Set-4 | P – T |
Backup-Set-5 | U – Z |
If there are new mailboxes added, you can add the new mailboxes into the original backup set by the corresponding alphabetic order.