One thing to consider, however, is if you really want to keep e-mail for that long. In our litigious society e-mail has become a prime target for discovery if a lawsuit is filed. We deliberately cycle our backups so that we don't have any backups of our Exchange server that are older than 3 weeks. If somebody wants an e-mail message that was deleted 6 months ago (assuming Deleted Items was emptied) they're out of luck.
For us 3 weeks is more than enough time to use for recovery - in fact it may be too long now that I think about it. 99% of the time we'd want to restore from the most recent backup. -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote http://home.hawaii.rr.com/schorr http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/bschorr/MyBlog.aspx **I apologize but I cannot respond to direct inquiries. Please post any questions, answers or followups here in the newsgroups -----Original Message----- From: Russ Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 06:38 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Backup strategy First of all, why bother with Arghserv, when NTBackup will do just fine. (The only thing you're missing is software compression.) I would do a full backup every business night - Mon-Fri for most operations, but you may have a 24/7 shop. I recommend three tape sets. Assuming a 5 day work week, set 1 is Monday - Thursday and cycled every two weeks. Set 2 is also Monday - Thursday and run on alternate weeks from set 1. Set 3 consists of four tapes and is run every Friday. This gives you 4 weeks worth of history, and two weeks worth of daily backups. (This method only requires 12 tapes.) Some people also throw in a Monthly set that replaces whatever tape would normally be used on the last business day of the month. (This increases the number of tapes required to 24.) I've also seen some operations where the December tape is only used once and taken out of rotation for Archival purposes. Russ Hansen MCSE(2k), MCSE+I, CCNA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kashif Dar Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:41 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Backup strategy Hi all Experts advice needed on backup. We have exchange 2000 server installed on windows 2000 server. Have 25 users and the mailbox stores around 5 GB. We recently have installed a new hp dlt tape drive and Arcserve backup software which has the exchange backup agent. what backup strategy we should use? this is first time i am using tape drive with arcserve. thanks kashi _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang =english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
