my 2 cent's 1.) Id do the FAQ (Dump the BLB...etc...) 2.) I would increase the retention period. 3.) Get yourself a DR machine practice and have it just in case 4.) If you have to say delete a mailbox cause say the user is Gone...Ask old users manager what to do with info...after they ignore you (and Attorney's will) Id use exmerge to "backup" the user mailbox to a PST. Then deleted MB it...you'll have the PST just in case....
5.) If I was so in client as to having to have individual mailboxes...and felt like punishing myself I might try to write a script that would use Exmerge and it's capabilities to maybe "backup" of each MB to a PST file and put it on a different machine. Note: Since with attorney's time is money and in my part of the US (east coast...tristate NY/CT/NJ area these jokers get like 300~600/hr) next time they say it is too much money to buy what you need...say a cheap 1500.00 machine for a quick DR ask them what it just cost them to not have their info when they needed it...its pays for itself pretty quickly...especially since these guy's bill on the 7/10 of an hour. Haaaa..I miss the cheapness of attorney's at times.....and their "higher education" bill -----Original Message----- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:23 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Best practices for backing up Exchange 5.5 and BLBS waste time and money. -----Original Message----- From: Karon Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:19 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] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copy of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify Veronis Suhler Stevenson by telephone (212)935-4990, fax (212)381-8168, or email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and delete the message. Thank you. ============================================================================ == _________________________________________________________________ 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]
