seems like no one's ansewring the original question just sending ppl to rooms.. NTBackup with the exchange .dll (which can be installed by just installing the exch admin prog) backs up the whole infostore and directory and works very nicely. it can't recover one mailbox at a time you have to have a recovery server. you shouldn't need to restore ever, archive old mailboxes to .pst and CD it, hide old mailboxes for a month or so, set deleted items retention to as much as possible (calc how much mail goes thru server etc etc before doing this or your drive will fill up, we set ours to 10 days thinking no probs, but got an extra 1.5gb roughly so maybe change it slowly over a period of time. try 5 days then 10 etc etc...
NTBackup doesn't do brick level backups but brick level backups are bad according to Guru Ed crowely... www.swinc.com he also says pst are bad but i disagree cos .pst is good for archival onto CDs... anyway starting to rant.s -----Original Message----- From: Ratini Heidi - IL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 2 October 2001 10:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: queue.bad Does anyone use the native "NTBACKUP" utility on their EX 5.5 installations to backup their Exchange IS's online? Recently Microsoft recommended we use the native NTBACKUP utility to do the page layer online backups. Just looking for input from anyone on this list currently doing this, rather than going to a 3rd party application for backups. Also, do any of you know if individual mailboxes can be restored when using NTBACKUP as the backup solution? I'm not sure on this aspect, but I would suspect not, I don't think NTBACKUP does brick layer backups. Thanks for any input you have, Heidi -----Original Message----- From: Neil Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 7:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: queue.bad I must admit, I've not heard of queue.bad It will be ok to delete it as far as I know. You can even delete queue.dat, as the IMS creates a new one when it starts (although you don't need to in this case). Neil -----Original Message----- From: Chris Meirick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: 02 October 2001 13:08 Posted To: Sunbelt Exchange List Conversation: queue.bad Subject: Re: queue.bad I think that some other muppet may have renamed the queue.dat file to queue.bad and just left it there for me to discover. Does this sound about right? Chris List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm ********************************************************************** This eMail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any view or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Silversands or any of its subsidiary companies. If you have received this eMail in error please contact the Support Desk Immediately by telephone on 01202-360000 or on eMail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************************************** List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
