First off, don't drink the Koolaid that says BCV snaps of Exchange are a good idea. At least not yet - not until there is native (i.e. written by Microsoft) support for pausing IO and acquiescing of the database prior to a snapshot being taken. Even then, it is NOT the zero downtime solution that an online backup provides - because the database IO must be halted to bring about a consistent database state prior to creating the snapshot. IIRC, Ex2k3 or one of its service packs is supposed to support this functionality.
Add to the above reasons the aspects of what are lost on your production database (page checking as part of the backup) and they're still not a good idea. I find it much more palatable to have a RAID0 array on-SAN that is used for backups via NTBackup and then rip that file to tape. But its not a kewl technology and no where nearly as 31337 as BCV and snapshots. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tigue Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 1:42 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Best backup software for Exchange > > > We are looking at Networker and NetBackup for > enterprise backup solutions. We would like to so the > usual mailbox backup and also snap backups from SAN > BCV's. I would like to hear from the members about > these two products before we actually go ahead with > the purchase. We are using 5.5 and will likely go with > 2000 or 2003. We are migrating to a SAN as well. Is > there any way to do mailbox backup from the BCV > itself? > > TIA > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_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]
