RE: No budget backups of exchange server on a SBS box, How to???

[Lefkovics, William]

Title: RE: No budget backups of exchange server on a SBS box, How to???

That was my 'preferred' solution.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Zorz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:45 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: No budget backups of exchange server on a SBS box, How to???

I must've missed something. Why can't NTBackup be used? Multiple servers? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:22 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: No budget backups of exchange server on a SBS box, How to???

That would be the equivalent of BLB.

 

There are risks/issues you must assume in doing so.  It is a good backup to your backups, expecially for the most important mailboxes, like the Exchange Administrator or CEO/CIO/EIEIO.

 

(Assumption:  Full backups... no incrementals, excrementals, differentials)

Backups do a lot.  There are two main components to backing up 'email'.  The databases and the transaction logs.  The logs contain information processed since the last full backup.  Toast the database and the logs could potentially be 'replayed' to bring your system back to point of failure.  A BLB/exmerge/offline backup will not allow for this.  Online backups also provide other checking of your system and report to the application event log.

 

William

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Howie Pince [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:12 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: No budget backups of exchange server on a SBS box, How to???

Sherry,

 

Nothing besides, exmerging everday, and NTBACKUP to a dat tape that can only be restored to a recovery server that I cant create.

 

Question, so is backing up pst's concidered a BLB or what is?

 

Thanks.....

 

Howie

 

Howie Pince

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-----Original Message-----
From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:31 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: No budget backups of exchange server on a SBS box, How to???

Or if you want to get $$$ to get a real Exchange backup solution stop doing what you're doing & wait til someone in management says they need something restored and then tell them it's not available....

Out of curiosity, what are you using to backup data files?  With most backup software, adding agents for specific types of backups like Exchange, are usually not that cost prohibitive if you already own the main package...

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:19 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: No budget backups of exchange server on a SBS box, How to???

Honestly, if I had no money, I would ask management what value they place on lost mail, and what they would be willing to pay to recover it. If they say 0, then don't back it up.

-----Original Message-----
From: Howie Pince [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:19 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: No budget backups of exchange server on a SBS box, How to???

Hey,

                Here's what I'm doing now and why?

NT 4.0 sp6, Exchange 5.5 sp4.

NO $$$ for backup software, so have been using Exmerge every day to dump out pst's to dat tape.

Also been running directory export out of the exchange admin prog, so at least I have something to start a restore with.

Also have been running NTBACKUP to dat, but the restore ALWAYS fails cause the dir.edb import <restore> on another SBS box has different SID's than the source box.

MS say's create a "recovery server" and add it as a BDC to get a correct copy of the SAM BUT SBS can ONLY be a DC, so how can I get a copy of the SAM to the 2nd box?

As of now I cant see a way around this recovery server issue and am ready to give up using NTBACKUP all together, cause as far as I can see, it cant be restored to anything.

Any thoughts on a workaround for this, and using my present method of Exmerging everyday to DAT?

Remember I have ZERO $$$ to work with here.

Thanks much in advance..........

Howie
 

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