I think it might be a little more complicated than that for a law firm. Imagine having to restore a mailbox for an employee who worked there 5 years ago because you are being subpoenaed for correspondence with a client in a case related to the firing of a 49 year old woman in 1996.
It's very much related to Ed's POV on 30, 60, 90 day tape backup rotation policies... odds are something that simple can be detrimental (or even illegal). > -----Original Message----- > From: Hunter, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:30 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Best practices for backing up Exchange 5.5 > > Why are mailboxes being deleted erroneously? You need to address the root > cause. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Karon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:19 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Best practices for backing up Exchange 5.5 > > > 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] > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
