Nothing will help you when you go to do a restore and find out you've been backup up a corrupt database for months.[1] Since you're only doing offline backups, your transaction logs would never be purged so you might as well leave circular logging enabled and sign up for that machete juggling class you've been considering. ;)
[1] Not that we'd want that to happen to you, but there's no way to know if the database integrity is intact without doing an online backup. [2] [2] Well, almost. > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Ahlfont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 2:23 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange Backup Modules question. > > > > > Every night we schedule the exchange services to stop at 11pm > and start at 6 am. Our email is held up at our ISP and is > delivered when our exchange server is back online at 6am. My > understanding is that if I had to do a restore, I would have > all email up until 11:00pm the night before. > I'm confused about the transaction logs. Would having > transaction logs up until the point of failure help me at all > if I'm only doing an offline back up? It sounds like I need > to have an online back up to use these transaction logs if I > were to have any hope of restoring to the point of failure. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:52 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Re: Exchange Backup Modules question. > > You can do backups without the Exchange Agents by stopping > the services and doing off-line backups. But then, you can't > restore to the point of failure (transaction logs won't be > applied to an off-line restore). The Exchange agent allows > the backup to work with the Exchange System Attendant to > backup or restore an online database. > > Eric > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Craig Manske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:36 AM > Subject: Exchange Backup Modules question. > > > > I am seeing that most Backup Solutions have an extra MS Exchange > > Agent. > But > > some of them don't allow individual Mailbox or Public > Folder restore. > > If their Exchange Agent doesn't go into the Public and > Private IS why > > have an exchange agent, why not just back up the files with > a standard > > backup? I guess I figured that an Exchange Backup module's purpose > > was to get inside of the public and private IS and back up > individual > > stuff. > > > > Then again maybe my knowledge of Exchange is lacking. :) > > > > -cm > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
