Over at TheEmailAdmin.com I’ve published a five part series on Exchange Server 2007 backup and recovery.
- Part 1 – What needs to be backed up for Exchange Server 2007?
- Part 2 – How to backup and restore Mailbox Servers
- Part 3 – How to backup and restore Hub Transport and Edge Transport Servers
- Part 4 – How to backup and restore Client Access Servers
- Part 5 – How to recover individual mailbox items using Recovery Storage Groups
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Hi Paul,
I’ve skimmed through your articles, looks like some impressive work you have put together
One quesiton though, wouldn’t an image backup solution that makes a backup of the whole disk (OS, apps and data files) do a lot of the work already so you don’t need to make “backup exceptions” or “things not to forget” ? (We use StorageCraft ShadowProtect http://www.storagecraft.co.uk)
Cheers,
Mark
Hi Mark, thats one approach. There can be disadvantages to that approach though, for example:
- uses more (a lot more in some cases) backup capacity than is really required. For a single Exchange server this is probably not much concern, but as you scale up it becomes a cost issue.
- if your image based backup is not properly application aware then your recovery options may be limited. For example, ability to recover a single mailbox database, or single mailbox item.
Have no experience with StorageCraft Shadow Protect to make any specific comment about it.
Nice article, thanks!
We are using Microsoft DPM Server to backup exchange. It is working good for us.
Their might be several reasons behind corruption of exchange server database that causes loss of significant data, its really nice that you have provided adequate knowledge regarding how and for what backup and recovery is necessary.
Hilfreicher Artikel.
Vielen Dank.
Weiter so.
MfG