Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups
Must say I never had any issue with the full+incr strategy don't agree full backup every day is best practice, it is a waste of backup window/storage in my book. Regards Michael 2008/9/24 WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jorge I would not say Delicate but from a DB+Logs perspective, a full is better to perform, even if you keep the retention short to 1 week. I have only ever done full backups, following best practice and experience from Exchange 5, 5.5, 2000 and 2003. Not toyed with Ex2k7 yet. Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge Fábregas Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:32 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups Hello everyone, Is there any real problem running a Weekly-Full Daily-Cumulative-Inc on an Exchange policy? I've been told I'm better off doing a FULL backup daily because Exchange is very delicate. I'll be glad to hear your comments. Thanks, Jorge ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups
Mike Alot may depend on your environment (ie: Storage Library, Tapes, Capacity, ect - you never stated what you had), but 1 full a day, 7 day retention is sufficient and certainly not a waste of storage here. I would hate to be in a position where you cannot restore an INCR that you really, really need. I do believe the preferred method is to perform FULL Daily Backups. Also, please remember a full backup purges the logs straight after, which for us, is another bonus. Most Exchange Admins will tell you this. However, each to their own . And if you are happy with your environment Mike, then do not change it :-) Simon From: Michael Graff Andersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:02 AM To: WEAVER, Simon (external) Cc: Jorge Fábregas; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups Must say I never had any issue with the full+incr strategy don't agree full backup every day is best practice, it is a waste of backup window/storage in my book. Regards Michael 2008/9/24 WEAVER, Simon (external) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jorge I would not say Delicate but from a DB+Logs perspective, a full is better to perform, even if you keep the retention short to 1 week. I have only ever done full backups, following best practice and experience from Exchange 5, 5.5, 2000 and 2003. Not toyed with Ex2k7 yet. Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge Fábregas Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:32 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups Hello everyone, Is there any real problem running a Weekly-Full Daily-Cumulative-Inc on an Exchange policy? I've been told I'm better off doing a FULL backup daily because Exchange is very delicate. I'll be glad to hear your comments. Thanks, Jorge ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups
Jorge I have only restored from Full Backups, and only had 1 problem, which was a corrupt log caused by a disk related problem. Other than that, all other restores have been fine (only done 4 in 5+ years!) Simon P.S. From a recovery point, I am not a fan of BLB Mailbox backups, or INCR backups on Exchange. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge Fábregas Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:41 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups On Tuesday 23 September 2008 10:49:46 am Hudson, Steve wrote: We only do Full backups for Exchange. Thanks for the feedback Steve. Any bad experience restoring from a full+inc on Exchange (e.g. any corrupted transaction log ?) Regards, Jorge ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups
Jorge I would not say Delicate but from a DB+Logs perspective, a full is better to perform, even if you keep the retention short to 1 week. I have only ever done full backups, following best practice and experience from Exchange 5, 5.5, 2000 and 2003. Not toyed with Ex2k7 yet. Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge Fábregas Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:32 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups Hello everyone, Is there any real problem running a Weekly-Full Daily-Cumulative-Inc on an Exchange policy? I've been told I'm better off doing a FULL backup daily because Exchange is very delicate. I'll be glad to hear your comments. Thanks, Jorge ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. - Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 REGISTERED OFFICE:- Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups
Hello Jorge We are running Full Differential Incremental of our Exchange 2007 environment without any major problems and before that we did the same on Exchange 2003. We have run multiple restores of users mailboxes by using the Recovery Storage Group Regards Michael 2008/9/23 Jorge Fábregas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everyone, Is there any real problem running a Weekly-Full Daily-Cumulative-Inc on an Exchange policy? I've been told I'm better off doing a FULL backup daily because Exchange is very delicate. I'll be glad to hear your comments. Thanks, Jorge ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups
We only do Full backups for Exchange. Steve Hudson Enterprise Storage Iron Mountain 745 Atlantic Ave Boston, MA 02111 Phone: (617) 535-2849 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new www.ironmountain.com Tour Iron Mountain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge Fábregas Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 7:32 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups Hello everyone, Is there any real problem running a Weekly-Full Daily-Cumulative-Inc on an Exchange policy? I've been told I'm better off doing a FULL backup daily because Exchange is very delicate. I'll be glad to hear your comments. Thanks, Jorge ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse, copying, or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups
We do a daily full backup of the database and run weekly fulls and daily incremental differentials on the mailboxes. The mailboxes take forever though! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hudson, Steve Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:50 AM To: Jorge Fábregas; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups We only do Full backups for Exchange. Steve Hudson Enterprise Storage Iron Mountain 745 Atlantic Ave Boston, MA 02111 Phone: (617) 535-2849 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new www.ironmountain.com Tour Iron Mountain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge Fábregas Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 7:32 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups Hello everyone, Is there any real problem running a Weekly-Full Daily-Cumulative-Inc on an Exchange policy? I've been told I'm better off doing a FULL backup daily because Exchange is very delicate. I'll be glad to hear your comments. Thanks, Jorge ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse, copying, or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 10:49:46 am Hudson, Steve wrote: We only do Full backups for Exchange. Thanks for the feedback Steve. Any bad experience restoring from a full+inc on Exchange (e.g. any corrupted transaction log ?) Regards, Jorge ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups
Nope no restore issues so far.. Steve Hudson Enterprise Storage Iron Mountain 745 Atlantic Ave Boston, MA 02111 Phone: (617) 535-2849 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the new www.ironmountain.com Tour Iron Mountain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jorge Fábregas Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:41 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups On Tuesday 23 September 2008 10:49:46 am Hudson, Steve wrote: We only do Full backups for Exchange. Thanks for the feedback Steve. Any bad experience restoring from a full+inc on Exchange (e.g. any corrupted transaction log ?) Regards, Jorge ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu The information contained in this email message and its attachments is intended only for the private and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above, unless the sender expressly agrees otherwise. Transmission of email over the Internet is not a secure communications medium. If you are requesting or have requested the transmittal of personal data, as defined in applicable privacy laws by means of email or in an attachment to email you must select a more secure alternate means of transmittal that supports your obligations to protect such personal data. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient and/or you have received this email in error, you must take no action based on the information in this email and you are hereby notified that any dissemination, misuse, copying, or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by email and delete the original message. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] MS Exchange Server Backups
Hello everyone, Is there any real problem running a Weekly-Full Daily-Cumulative-Inc on an Exchange policy? I've been told I'm better off doing a FULL backup daily because Exchange is very delicate. I'll be glad to hear your comments. Thanks, Jorge ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
