Yeah, I do the same for one of my customers. I generate a new .INI file daily that has today's date to start and tomorrow's date to stop. Plus it specifies a different export file directory (e.a. C:\EXMERGEDATA-%MYDATE%). They get daily PST exports. Then I run exmerge -b -f <path to the daily INI file>
Another customer does not generate enough mail during the course of the day to warrant a new PST every single day, so I do it for them on a monthly basis. The pain comes when they ask me to burn their stuff on CDs for them. :) Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -----Original Message----- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:47 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Brick Level Backup I don't do that. Here's the basics of what I do: Exmerge (with various command line switches that I'm too lazy to look up right now). Cd \exmergedata Del pst.9.zip Ren pst.8.zip pst.9.zip Ren pst.7.zip pst.8.zip ... Ren pst.zip pst.1.zip Zip -m -9 pst.zip *.pst This is in a batch file that gets run nightly via the scheduler. I keep 10 days of "snapshots" of select mailboxes. Customer is happy, it was easy to script, and it didn't cost anything other than a bit of disk space. -----Original Message----- From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:27 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Brick Level Backup But if you keep on dumping new data into the same PST, eventually it will grow quite large, even if your online mailbox limit is low. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -----Original Message----- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 6:02 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Brick Level Backup This is true. I've never worked with an Exchange system where the mailbox limits were set anywhere near 2GB, so it's never been an issue for me. -----Original Message----- From: Alverson, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:33 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Brick Level Backup Exmerge fails on mailboxes over 2gig... Tom -----Original Message----- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 10:46 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Brick Level Backup Exmerge -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Shimmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:19 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Brick Level Backup Hi all What is the best brick level backup software for Exchange 2000? I have gave up on Arcserve as it crashes to many times on critical restores. Any advice welcome. Regards Aaron Shimmons Network Administrator _________________________________________________________________ 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]
