Are you using the SMB transfer method? There was a bug a while back
(in smbclient, not BackupPC) when using the SMB transfer method for
files > 2GB. I ran into it on PST files, as they were the only ones
that exceeded 2GB which I tried to restore.
The bug has been since patched, but I ended up switching to rsyncd for
other reasons anyhow (volume snapshots on XP to backup open files is
wonderful!). A search of the backuppc-users archives with the terms
"Justin Best 2GB" should turn up the patch that Craig provided, or you
could just switch to rsyncd like I did.
Justin Best
503.906.7611
On Jan 19, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Tomas Florian wrote:
Personaly, I use the Exmerge method. Generally it works great - but
fails horribly for PST files > 2GB.
Is there a workaround?
Regards,
Tomas
Mark Best wrote:
Tony's idea of using Exmerge is just brilliant, But it got me
thinking... Has anyone ever thought of being able to recover
_individual
emails_ directly to/and from an Exchange server? I'm just brain
storming
here but scripts like
http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/view.asp?Index=1140&ScriptType=vbsc
ript can list individual emails, couldn't one also script into
Exchange
(or a client .pst) and Backup/Restore emails this way?
Thoughts/Experiences?
-Mark
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
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