Done properly, they can be handy in a pinch.
With the Ed Crowley© "Never Restore Method®", they're not needed.
(:=
Great Cthulhu Jones
CEO, R'lyeh Consulting
http://www.zzzptm.com/cthulhu
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sethi, Ali
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 5:25 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Brick Level Backups
Hello,
Can someone tell me why Brick Level backups are a bad idea? I have been
doing brick level backups for a while and have not incurred into any
problems. Am I heading for a disaster by continuing to do brick level
backups? My users demand that mailbox be restored without the Exchange
server being down. I do frequently get calls from users accidentally
deleting emails and then frantically calling me to restore them immediately.
What are my alternatives? Email retention? How much disk space would that
require on my exchange server to setup a email retention for 30 days?
In order to skip brick level backups would I need a second exchange server
as a DR server? If that is the case and I setup a local lan with the exact
same domain, service account, site and organization name would it be a piece
of cake to restore a full backup on this server and recover all the data on
tape without any problems??
Exchange 5.5 sp4
Win 2k server
626 mailboxes
31GB Info store, about 100gb on server (Including emc drive array space)
1.5GB of ram. Do you think I need more Ram? I may...
At what point is it a good idea to begin to think about a 2nd exchange
server?
Thanks,
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