Well the first part I already knew, as I did state that in my own email, I quote
"There should be an M drive, a virtual disk that is a representation of your exchange Public And Private Message store databases." But as for using it as a backup source, its not something ive actually practised, it was an idea that I came up with. Now as ive attempted to do a restore of my public folders, and nothing is being restored, im pretty sure I could have done something with the physical files ive I had backed them up as well, so to be able to restore a little something with what I have available now (arcserve) than be able to restore nothing which is what has happened, I think I will backup the virtual drive in addition to the exchange agent. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Hummert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2003 16:50 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Backing up the M Drive >From previous list messages: "There is no M: Drive" The M: drive is not a physical drive. It's not on a partition exactly. It's a virtual drive created by Exchange. Pretend it doesn't exist. you don't need it. 5.2 Q: Can I back up the M: drive using NT Backup or another backup application? A: You can, but you will be sad. Do NOT back up the M: drive of an Exchange 2000 server. It can result in messages and attachments being inaccessible via the Outlook client. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Doody Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:47 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Backing up the M Drive ? If you have no M drive, I suggest that your Information Store is not running, and exchange probably isnt working ;) There should be an M drive, a virtual disk that is a representation of your exchange Public And Private Message store databases. Should look like this :- M: -> Domain Name -> MBX -> CONTENT -> -> PUBLIC FOLDERS -> CONTENT If for each server you want to backup you over-ride the "Inherit Permissions" property from the security settings and add "Send As" & "Receive As" to say the Domain Admins group, youll be able to backup and restore using this virtual drive. Or so I think anyway :o. P.S. Did anyone actually work out where the servers inherit there permissions from? I looked up at all the hierarchy objects, but I find nothing that can be changed as a master for all the servers to inherit there security permissions from! -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Hummert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 June 2003 16:38 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Backing up the M Drive There is no M Drive -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Doody Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:37 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Backing up the M Drive I honestly have come to conclusion today that my arcserve backups would be a lot better off backing up the M drive, and not using the Exchange Agent at all. Does anyone else get this feeling ? _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
