Hi Cyril, The 'best way' to backup an exchange mailbox is a matter of opinion. Personally, I'm still using Backup Exec with the Exchange Agent. I love BackupPC for what it does, but I find that I prefer software that can restore a mailbox's contents _directly_ to the exchange server, without any intermediate steps. This also allows for incremental backups of messages within an exchange server, something that isn't possible otherwise.
However, it is easy to set up a process that dumps individual exchange mailboxes to a .PST file. The utility to do this is called ExMerge. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=429163EC-DCDF-47DC- 96DA-1C12D67327D5&displaylang=en The idea here is much like backing up MySQL or any other database. Get the database to dump itself to a file, and backup that file. Here's what to do: - Get familiar with ExMerge... there are some security settings in Exchange that must be adjusted before it will work. - Once ExMerge is installed and working, create a folder for your nightly Exchange mailbox backups to reside in (say C:\Backups) - Write a script that does the following: 1: Deletes all files in C:\Backups 2: Calls ExMerge and tells it to dump all mailboxes into C:\Backups 3: Sends an email if anything fails - Schedule the script to run every night using Windows Task Scheduler - Use BackupPC to make daily backups of the C:\Backups folder It's not a perfect solution. For starters, you won't have any idea what's in a mailbox until you restore it (whereas the Backup Exec solution lets restore as little as a single message). Further, if you set ExMerge up wrong and aren't careful about deleting the files before your nightly dump, you could end up with duplicate items INSIDE the .pst files (e.g. duplicate calendar appointments, duplicate inbox items, duplicate tasks...) which would be a mess to try and clean up. Good luck! Justin Best 503.906.7611 Voice 561.828.0496 Fax -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of zorg Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:15 AM To: backuppcmailinglist Subject: [BackupPC-users] best way to save data from a Ms exchange server Hello all is in the title what is the best solution to save all my account in Ms exchange I mean best way to save andrestore too thanks for your advice cyril ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
