Len/Wayne, We do nightly fulls with hourly logs (incrementals) 8am-8pm. Our Exchange admins do a fair amount of restores, and appreciate having an RPO of 1 hour instead of 24 hours. If your company is willing to lose 24 hours worth of email, I wouldn't worry about it - stick with fulls.
But I can just about guarantee that will change the first time it actually happens. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer, WNI BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee 423-752-6574 (desk) 423-785-7347 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:07 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exchange backup question The reasons I have been given are: 1) The use of the incremental logs add complexity to the job for the person doing the restore, and sometimes a step is forgotten. 2) The full backups do a checksum on all the data base pages that are backed up via the online api. An incremental backup does not read any of the data base pages, so it will not find any problem pages, if they exist. 3) Replaying the logs, can add time to the restore. This depends on the speed of your hardware and the quantity of the logs. len -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spearman, Wayne Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:28 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Exchange backup question We just implemented the TDP for exchange. Our exchange admin just got back from Microsoft exchange class and is being told to only perform full backups of Exchange. She has been warned that incremental are not reliable with exchange will just cause us problems. I can't see why... Worked ok for us during testing. Does anyone know of any problems with the full/incremental strategy? Have you ever had problems recovering exchange using the TDP with full/incremental Thanks, Wayne ----------------------------------------- This message and any included attachments are from NOVANT HEALTH INC. and are intended only for the addressee(s). The information contained herein may include trade secrets or privileged or otherwise confidential information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, copying, distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you received this message in error, or have reason to believe you are not authorized to receive it, please promptly delete this message and notify the sender by e-mail. If you believe that any information contained in this message is disparaging or harassing on the basis of gender, race, age, disability, religion, or national origin, please contact Novant Health, Inc. at 1 -888-378-8250 or 1-800-350-0094 or forward the e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm