Personaly, I use the Exmerge method. Generally it works great - but fails horribly for PST files > 2GB.
Is there a workaround? Regards, Tomas Mark Best wrote: > Tony's idea of using Exmerge is just brilliant, But it got me > thinking... Has anyone ever thought of being able to recover _individual > emails_ directly to/and from an Exchange server? I'm just brain storming > here but scripts like > http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/view.asp?Index=1140&ScriptType=vbsc > ript can list individual emails, couldn't one also script into Exchange > (or a client .pst) and Backup/Restore emails this way? > > > > Thoughts/Experiences? > > > > -Mark > > > >> 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 > >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Tomas Florian Florian Consulting Inc. Suite 812, 738 3rd Ave SW Calgary Alberta, T2P 0G7 Cel. (403) 714-3914 Bus. (403) 775-6949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.florian.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
