1) Stop doing BLB. You know yourself that they don't work. Just use an Exchange aware backup program (I use BackupExce) and backup the whole thing at one time. You will continue to have nothing but problems no matter what software you use to do it. 2) Setup Deleted Item Retention. Choose how long you want to save deleted emails and make that the policy on recovering them. We do 30 days.
-----Original Message----- From: Karon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:00 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Best practices for backing up Exchange 5.5 My company prefers to backup individual mailboxes (brick level backups) and we're using the latest version of Backup Exec. It seems to put a load on the server though and occassionally gives us problems. We aren't even able to get a full backup every night of the whole server but just the .EDB files due to the mailboxes being so large. You see, we don't enforce limits on mailboxes however, I've tried to convince management otherwise. What's the best practice for backing up an Exchange 5.5 system? What's the best backup software? Also we have to occassionally restore mailboxes on the server and will get "Access denied to directory" errors and a reboot is the only way to fix that. I'm told this is due to no physical memory available because the store eats it all up but from the research I've done, this isn't what that error is from. Any help, advice, or suggestions would be great. Karon Miller Systems Administrator Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
