Well, you can't back up the exchange content databases with the databases online (i.e. with the Information Store service running) You can do it 3 (and probably more) ways with BackupPC:
1. Stop the Information Store service, then have BackupPC backup the databases, which is basically all the files in the C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA directory. Note, this is the default directory..but most people put it on a different drive. Then restart the Information Store service. This method is not recommended. 2. Use ntbackup on your Exchange server to do a backup of the Exchange storage groups. Ntbackup will use VSS to backup the databases to a .bak file you specify with the information store able to remain online. Use BackupPC to backup the .bak file 3. Use Exmerge to export all your mailboxes to PST files. Have BackupPC backup the .pst files. Personally, I do a combination of #2 and #3. I use ntbackup to do a full database backup every Saturday. I use Exmerge to do incremental backups of all mailboxes every night (except Saturday). With Exmerge you can even just take changed data from the mailboxes, so you're not backing up every single byte of every single mailbox, but you are keeping a running up-to-date mailbox with the PST file (unless you delete the PST files every night). And then if someone needs something recovered from the week, you can just open their exmerge-backed up PST file in Outlook and pull it out rather than go through restoring the database files, creating a storage recovery group, copying the data over, blah blah. -Tony -- Anthony J. Biacco Senior Systems/Network Administrator Decentrix Inc. 303-899-4000 x303 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Owens Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:29 AM Cc: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] backup up an Exchange server Sorry, I'm not very familiar with Exchange. I need to be able to backup email content (not the server settings). So I guess I mean the Exchange mailboxes. So for instance, if the exchange server catches on fire, I can rebuild the from scratch and restore the email content from BackupPC. Note that all of my users keep their mailboxes on the server, and not on their local machines. Thanks for your response. -Rob Anthony J Biacco wrote: > What do you really mean when you say 'outlook files on your exchange > server'? Do you really mean outlook files (.ost/.pst), or do you mean > Exchange mailboxes? > > -Tony > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
