Hi, Toni, on Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2004 at 16:54 you wrote to amanda-users:
TM> 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? TM> to answer this question first: Dispose of them and upgrade to a decent TM> Unix mail system! TM> ...ok, just joking... I am at the first step there: Moving things to a Samba-server and back it up with AMANDA. They don't have ANY Linux/UNIX in their environment, so they don't trust it. Yet. Maybe I can tell you about some "Exchange Server erased - Linux installed"-news earlier than expected ;-) >> confronted with the question how to backup a MS Exchange Server ! TM> It would help to know the version of Exchange that you have. Afaik TM> there are significant differenes in behaviour between the various TM> versions. I have already requested that info ... seems to be 5.5 from what I researched until now. >> MS Exchange seems to only be able to dump ONE BIG FAT dumpfile, from >> which you can only recover ALL the server. TM> True for 5.5 afair - I managed one for about 1.5 yrs. 5.5 again. >> If you only need/want to restore SOME mails, this does not work. TM> Right. Brrr... >> Correct me on this, it's hard to believe for me anyway. TM> No. Exchange 5.5 has a binary blob which holds almost all data, and a TM> few small files around it. Can't remember exactly, and it's not in my TM> responsibility anymore. The good thing is that I don't HAVE TO mess with it, as the first steps will be fileserving and backup, as told above ... ;-) -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
