I also have Backup Exec with the Exchange agent installed, I have it running once a day but it depends on the amount of traffic that you have and how critical it is for your company. We have RAID 5 on the server so I'm not worried about a hard drive crashing, we also have two external SMTP servers that sit on the DMZ and process mail for SPAM, viruses and other filters before they make it to the exchange server. We also keep copies of every message that comes in/out of our company for a couple of months in a separate server. In the event that the Exchange server was down, I can set the SMTP servers to hold the messages for a whole day, thus not loosing any incoming messages. Restoring the Exchange server would take about four hours at the latest. Most of our users keep their PST files on their systems and are backed up on a regular basis. Again it depends on how critical the info is for your company, if you need to have it 24x7 then you may want to have data stored in multiple systems and have more than one Exchange server.
AM -----Original Message----- From: John Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 3:08 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Exchange Backup Hi all... I currently use Backup exec to perform my nightly backups. I like it, it seems to work just fine. I also use a small retrospect piece that does a live backup to a flat file 4 times throughout the day. I was wondering if anyone else is performing "Hot" backups throughout the day and if so, what are you using? We are running Exchange 2000 on server 2000. Thank you. John Parker, MCSE IS Admin. Senior Technical Specialist Alpha Display Systems. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been inspected by DynaComm i:mail 5.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FutureSoft, Inc. 12012 Wickchester Lane, Suite 600 Houston, TX 77079 If you no longer want to receive commercial e-mail correspondence from FutureSoft, you may remove your address from our records by visiting www.futuresoft.com/emailremoval.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
