We have no document retention policies whatsoever. Remember, here we have the policy that all PSTs must be on network shares. ;p
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:57 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Best practices for backing up Exchange 5.5 Depends. If you had a legal requirement to retain the document and you didn't you (the company) are now fscked. > -----Original Message----- > From: Hunter, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:41 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Best practices for backing up Exchange 5.5 > > I don't have any tapes older than 6 weeks. That's good, right? Nips that > request right in the bud anyway! I had a request yesterday for a file > restore from 2000. We laughed and laughed! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:37 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Best practices for backing up Exchange 5.5 > > > 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] > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
