Thanks very much for the info. I'm not sure I understand, though, what is the purpose of using ntbackup if you are also using Exmerge? Does ntbackup save some information that Exmerge does not?
-Rob Anthony J Biacco wrote: > Well, you can't back up the exchange content databases with the > databases online (i.e. with the Information Store service running) > You can do it 3 (and probably more) ways with BackupPC: > > 1. Stop the Information Store service, then have BackupPC backup the > databases, which is basically all the files in the C:\Program > Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA directory. Note, this is the default > directory..but most people put it on a different drive. Then restart the > Information Store service. This method is not recommended. > > 2. Use ntbackup on your Exchange server to do a backup of the Exchange > storage groups. Ntbackup will use VSS to backup the databases to a .bak > file you specify with the information store able to remain online. Use > BackupPC to backup the .bak file > > 3. Use Exmerge to export all your mailboxes to PST files. Have BackupPC > backup the .pst files. > > Personally, I do a combination of #2 and #3. I use ntbackup to do a full > database backup every Saturday. I use Exmerge to do incremental backups > of all mailboxes every night (except Saturday). With Exmerge you can > even just take changed data from the mailboxes, so you're not backing up > every single byte of every single mailbox, but you are keeping a running > up-to-date mailbox with the PST file (unless you delete the PST files > every night). And then if someone needs something recovered from the > week, you can just open their exmerge-backed up PST file in Outlook and > pull it out rather than go through restoring the database files, > creating a storage recovery group, copying the data over, blah blah. > > -Tony > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
