Of course you can. But there's a finite chance greater than zero that you will snapshot the database and logs when the combination is in an inconsistent state. At which point it is not a lossless backup/restore process.
------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Depp, Dennis M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:15 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup solution for Exchange 2000 on an EMC SAN > > > According to the EMC engineers, they can do a hot split. No need to > stop and restart the services. > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 11:07 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup solution for Exchange 2000 on an EMC SAN > > > And do I really want to buy all those extra expensive EMC > disks? And do > I really want to have to stop the Exchange services (albeit > briefly) to > do the split? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Depp, Dennis M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 8:16 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup solution for Exchange 2000 on an EMC SAN > > > While I do trust the EMC engineers, particularly after talking with > several of them at MEC, do I really want to go with a backup solution > that Microsoft does not fully support? > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Harford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 8:12 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Backup solution for Exchange 2000 on an EMC SAN > > > So no-one is using EMCs hot-split snapshot backup solution > for Exchange > 2000? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Martin Tuip [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: 30 > > January 2003 09:48 Posted To: Exchange 55 list server > > Conversation: Backup solution for Exchange 2000 on an EMC SAN > > Subject: Re: Backup solution for Exchange 2000 on an EMC SAN > > > > > > Reasonable. But usually a SAN means you also start looking at an > > enterprise backup solution. > > > > ** Please prefix your subject header with BETA for posts > dealing with > > > Exchange 2003 ** > > -------------------------- > > Martin Tuip > > MVP Exchange > > Exchange 2000 List owner > > www.exchange-mail.org > > www.sharepointserver.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -------------------------- > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ryan Finnesey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:31 AM > > Subject: RE: Backup solution for Exchange 2000 on an EMC SAN > > > > > > How is CommValt now a days ? > > > > > > Ryan, > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Depp, Dennis M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 6:25 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Backup solution for Exchange 2000 on an EMC SAN > > > > We are planning to use Legato in this situation to backup > our Exchange > > > database. > > > > Dennis Depp > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Walbert, Bryan (Bryan) % [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:11 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Backup solution for Exchange 2000 on an EMC SAN > > > > > > What backup/restore solutions are recommended for a large Exchange > > 2000 cluster running on an EMC SAN. 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