The other "awareness" that DPM 2007 has is DPM 2007, which is quite possibly the best capability of all. DPM on a secondary DPM server is aware that it is a secondary server and allows for selecting which primary data you want to backup a second time (I use this for offsite storage) and then it allows for archiving from disk to tape with any of that secondary data if you so desire. It really is an awesome product if you use Microsoft products on your network. TVK
-----Original Message----- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 1:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Back Up Best Practices Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2007. Works well with Exchange Server. http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dpm/workloads/exchange.mspx It is a managed backup/recovery solution for all the Microsoft applications - Sharepoint, SQL, Exchange. What's a TLA? -----Original Message----- From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Back Up Best Practices Please define DPM. There are too many TLA's running around here and I don't have the glossary. John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems FOB Orgun-E Afghanistan DSN - 318 431 8000 VoSIP - (308) 431 - 0000 Iridium - 717.633.3823 "A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes." Woodrow Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 9:30 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Back Up Best Practices Nah (although you might have been), I dreamed it up about a year and a half ago when I pulled the last of the tape drives off my network and suddenly the sun shone brighter and the flowers smelled flowerier. DPM has made it just that much better. (DPM is far more WAN resilient than DoubleTake has dreamed of being. TVK From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 10:41 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Back Up Best Practices Did you dream that up while polishing Shook's knob? :P On Jan 11, 2008 8:38 AM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which brings up what I consider the new world Backup Best Practice which would be NO tapes. I am of the opinion that true "backups" should be done to disk, "archives" should be done to tape. For years Bus and archives have really been one and the same due to technology's inability to truly differentiate them, but that isn't the case anymore. JMO YMMV, TVK ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
