I used to backup an exchange server using BackupPC and a couple Microsoft
utilities: ntbackup and exmerge. Both of them can back up the exchange
database while exchange is running. I then used BackupPC to backup the output
of those utilities.
ntbackup creates one huge file for the exchange database. Exmerge creates a
separate pst file for each mailbox.
-Rob
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 04:34:19PM -0700, Jessie M. Bunker-Maxwell wrote:
> We are just beginning to use BackupPC running on a Debian Linux server to
> backup our Exchange Server 5.5 databases via rsyncd running on the Windows
> NT 4.0 server where Exchange is installed.
>
> Currently, we have bat files scheduled to run on our Windows NT 4.0 Exchange
> Server to stop Exchange services before the BackupPC job runs and start
> Exchange services afterwards. But this means we're estimating the length of
> time needed for the backups and scheduling these jobs with a safe margin in
> either direction.
>
> I am concerned that: 1) we are leaving our Exchange database down longer
> than necessary; and 2) if something goes wrong and the procedures that stop
> or start the Exchange database run while BackupPC has the Exchange files
> open for backup, we may corrupt our Exchange data (am I being paranoid
> here?).
>
> It would be nice if the BackupPC job itself could issue the "net stop" and
> "net start" commands and I'm assuming I would use the $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd}
> and $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} but I don't understand from the documentation how
> this would be done if you're issuing commands to a Windows server. Maybe
> this is not possible?
>
> Can someone tell me if/how I could use $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} and
> $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} to remotely stop and start Exchange?
>
> Does anyone know if there is any risk around attempting to stop or start the
> Exchange services while BackupPC has the files open for backup?
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Jess
>
> Jessie M. Bunker-Maxwell
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