Hi,
On Wed, 26.05.2004 at 16:34:37 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: What to do with those MS Exchange Servers? to answer this question first: Dispose of them and upgrade to a decent Unix mail system! ...ok, just joking... > confronted with the question how to backup a MS Exchange Server ! It would help to know the version of Exchange that you have. Afaik there are significant differenes in behaviour between the various versions. > MS Exchange seems to only be able to dump ONE BIG FAT dumpfile, from > which you can only recover ALL the server. True for 5.5 afair - I managed one for about 1.5 yrs. > If you only need/want to restore SOME mails, this does not work. Right. > Correct me on this, it's hard to believe for me anyway. No. Exchange 5.5 has a binary blob which holds almost all data, and a few small files around it. Can't remember exactly, and it's not in my responsibility anymore. > If I could offer these guys an AMANDA-based solution which would be > able to restore single mails this would open some doors ;-) Switch to a Unix mailsystem. Then Amanda works best ;-) Maybe you can do it with Exchange 2003 which is an entirely different can of worms for all I heard... keep us posted! Best, --Toni++
