What is the best way to archive large mailboxes

I am using Mail on Mavericks 10.9.5 with my corporate mail (Exchange 2007). I am getting issues trying to archive my email, and remove it from the Exchange Server. I usually divide mail into years, e.g  mailbox for 2012, 13 etc.
I have 2 years of mail with about 14000 messages, and I want to migrate it off. I have taken the usual steps of creating a new mail box local to my mac and moving mail this way. However, unless I pick a very small no of messages, this method crashes mail. I have tried this over a few different versions of Mail, 10.8.x and 10.9.x and I get the same result.
Is there a way to just move the current exchange mailbox on my mac, from a live state to a archive state at the terminal or cmd line level?
If I can do this, I will then archive that mail from the Exchange server such that I start with a fresh/empty mailbox.
Thanks
Niall
13" MBAir mid 2012
8GB Ram
256GB Storage (156GB free).

Hi, 
 Are you asking with regards to on-premises Exchange? With Microsoft Online SaaS services (aka Exchange Online) there is no control and no need to control which data center a mailbox resides in.
 With regard to on-premises Exchange, you have two choices: you can move it over the WAN in which case you would either do a native mailbox move (assuming you have Exchange 2010 or later you can suspend the move after the copy so you can control the
time of the cutover) or create a database copy in the second data center and once the database copies have synchronized change the active copy.
The other choice is to move is out of band which would usually involve an offline seed of the database (you could conceivably move via PST file but that would disrupt access to the mailbox and is not really the 'best way').
In general, Exchange on-premises questions are best asked on the Exchange forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?category=exchangeserver
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