RE: [ActiveDir] help creating backup strategy for AD and exchange.

[Hutchins, Mike]

You said a bad word...   "toasted" is a forbidden word on the list. :-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:45 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] help creating backup strategy for AD and exchange. You boot some sort of CD and it then restores over the LAN from the media server/tape to your box, laying down the OS and data and such as it goes. You’re of course fucked if your media server is toasted because you’ve got a circular reference now.   Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]   c - 312.731.3132     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:33 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] help creating backup strategy for AD and exchange.   I thought IDR was pretty much the same thing as ASR?   Thanks   On 2/1/06, Brian Desmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Or buy the Veritas bare-metal option, I think its called Intelligent Disaster Recovery. It doesn't always work though.   Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]   c - 312.731.3132     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of sdgesa gaeharth Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:11 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] help creating backup strategy for AD and exchange.   2) Then how do I do an emergency boot if the boot files are corrupted? Brian Desmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, you should be backing up your DCs and Exchange from Backup Exec. You'll need to license the remote agent for each machine you want to backup and then push it out from the Tools>Serial Numbers/Installation menu in BE. For the DCs, System State backup is ample. For Exchange, you need to grab the MS Information Store and System State.   No…   Not sure what it grabs, honestly.   Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]   c - 312.731.3132     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of sdgesa gaeharth Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:26 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] help creating backup strategy for AD and exchange.   We currently have four file servers, two domain controllers, and one exhange 2003 server(all on Windows 2003). Three questions: 1)I  have Veritas Backup Exec 10 which is backing up only the file servers.  Is it a good idea to have Backup Exec backup my domain controllers and Exchange server as well  or should those be done another way? 2)If I used Backup Exec to backup exchange and the DCs, do I stil need to do ASR for the emergency floppy disks. If so what do I do with the 2GB ASR files that ASR creates and that I assume I need in an emergency. 3)Does ASR backup everything that needs to be backed up on a domain controller? thanks Do you Yahoo!? With a free 1 GB, there's more in store with Yahoo! Mail.   Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.