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Quickie: Exchang database migration over 24 hours

December 9th, 2013 No comments

Over the weekend I was setting up Exchange 2010 database copies using DAG. Those databases were huge (total of 3,5 TB). Line between primary and backup datacenter was 100Mbps. This migration ran over 24 hours for couple databases. When I checked the status I saw job was running 23 hours and 20 minutes:

When I have checked status in about hour and half I saw interesting time:

This happened on all databases which ran over 24 hours 🙂 So it looks like Microsoft engineers haven’t think about job running more than 24 hours 🙂

That’s all from weekend,