I had a few bad experiences with incremental restores, like one of the transaction logs did not get restored correctly and caused the whole transaction log replay impossible, threw everyone a week back in time (the last full backup)
I'd rather spend extra time and tape space on a full backup every night than face angry users and have to tell them to kiss their last week worth of mail goodbye. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Fretz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:37 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Backup rituals I'm using DLT 80/160 drives and tapes, so I've got the Tape space. I thought that daily full backups would just be a waste of tape space and time, but maybe not. Is your reason for doing full daily backups for quick recovery (e.g. reover from a single tape)??? Thanks, Eric Fretz L-3 Communications ComCept Division 2800 Discovery Blvd. Rockwall, TX 75032 tel: 972.772.7501 fax: 972.772.7510 -----Original Message----- From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:35 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Backup rituals I prefer full backup every day. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Fretz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:27 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Backup rituals What backup rituals do you guys use on your Exchange sites? I've looked through the FAQs and read most of the relevant Microsoft Qxxx articles on Exchange administration, but I haven't found "the" way to do good backups. My first blush is to backup the entire databases + logs once a week and then backup the incremental changes to the logs daily. All suggestions, snide remarks and pithy one-liners are welcome... Thanks, Eric Eric Fretz L-3 Communications ComCept Division 2800 Discovery Blvd. Rockwall, TX 75032 tel: 972.772.7501 fax: 972.772.7510 _________________________________________________________________ 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]
