We currently don't backup the Deleted Items folder at all and we have a 7 day deleted items retention after emptying the trash.
We're a law firm and it's so political on what software we use and how we use it. They're used to us being able to restore a single mailbox. I suggested a recovery / test server but we'd have to restore the entire database each time we needed just one mailbox and that takes a while and time is money here. Karon > 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]
