uh oh...
having just done a mailbox restore because a jr. admin didnt realize he was
deleting mailboxes along with NT ID's (should have disabled...) I can say
that I (we) have better things to do with our time than a restore for
something like an accidental delete (I know, this is obvious). However,
the ability for a user to recover accidentally deleted email WITHOUT
contacting me is one of my favorite things about Exchange. A quick email to
everyone about how to do it, and you are set. William said so!
ps- I had time to reply b/c I was able to walk the owner of a pub folder
through recovering his OWN accidentally deleted subfolder...gotta love
deleted item retention (to bad he didnt read his email about recovering the
folder before he called)
A piece of cake? You must really like cake, cause you say this would be
frequent...Did I mention I love Deleted Item Retention?
Pat
"Sethi, Ali"
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Hello,
Can someone tell me why Brick Level backups are a bad idea? I have been
doing brick level backups for a while and have not incurred into any
problems. Am I heading for a disaster by continuing to do brick level
backups? My users demand that mailbox be restored without the Exchange
server being down. I do frequently get calls from users accidentally
deleting emails and then frantically calling me to restore them
immediately.
What are my alternatives? Email retention? How much disk space would that
require on my exchange server to setup a email retention for 30 days?
In order to skip brick level backups would I need a second exchange server
as a DR server? If that is the case and I setup a local lan with the exact
same domain, service account, site and organization name would it be a
piece
of cake to restore a full backup on this server and recover all the data on
tape without any problems??
Exchange 5.5 sp4
Win 2k server
626 mailboxes
31GB Info store, about 100gb on server (Including emc drive array space)
1.5GB of ram. Do you think I need more Ram? I may...
At what point is it a good idea to begin to think about a 2nd exchange
server?
Thanks,
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